(Bloomberg) – Amazon.com Inc. defended the privacy features of their digital assistant Alexa – and brought some new tools reassure users – after months of debate on the practices of the technology giant and its biggest competitor. The company plans to roll a feature that the Alexa-based voice users automatically makes guided their verbal jabs eliminate regularly, over a rolling three-month and 18 months. Previously Alexa user had to manually delete their audio recordings stored on a companion website. “We take care of” Dave Limp, Amazon the leading devices and business services, privacy, he said during a press conference at the headquarters in Seattle. “Privacy is absolutely what we are doing fundamental to everything in and around Alexa.” In April, Bloomberg News reported that Amazon a team of people in offices around the world with the review of a small sample of consumers voice recordings recorded by Alexa, a practice the company had invited not explicitly disclosed. News and reports in the following months showed Alphabet practices similar to Google Inc. and Apple Inc., among other companies. “We will continue to listen to customers, and I am sure they are more ideas for us” to new privacy features, said Limp. Amazon has said his security cameras ring at home will be equipped with a new privacy mode. There is also a new best-selling Echo Dot model with an integrated visual clock, and un’altoparlanti high-end HomePod rival Apple, Google homepage speakers Max and Sonos Inc. has introduced the so-called study of echo. The company has set a new Echo Show speaker with an 8-inch screen, in addition to a line that already contains 5-inch and 10-inch display. The new 8-inch model costs $129 starting today with pre-orders. The eco-Flex, split time is a new intelligent speaker category directly to a wall outlet, unlike other eco devices that connect to the outputs from a cable. The eco-Flex, to $24.99, will be integrated with new movement and light sensors and so developers can write commands to them an API. an intelligent oven with an air fryer: Amazon has also added any other device in its portfolio. Last year, the company announced its microwave Alexa and said it quickly becomes the oven to microwave best sellers on Amazon.com. The new smart oven, $249, integrated with Alexa and contains a dot eco, do not need so that users additional equipment to make it work with voice control. Wednesday event marks the third consecutive year, Amazon announced a September has decided to present the new devices, highlighting the growing importance of electronics company franchise. Amazon devices, led by big hockey puck eco intelligent speakers Dot and Fire TV Streaming Stick The demand, it made the third brand sales in the United States the most sold last year, according to the Euro Monitor International researcher estimates. The e-commerce giant only Apple and Samsung Electronics Co. Unlike high-end electronics manufacturers trailed Amazon has reached its reference point in the first place by selling inexpensive devices that analysts bring profit estimate barely enough to cover their production costs, the bet is a long-term bet on a virtuous circle: the more devices in more consumers’ hands more viewers for Amazon original television shows means more subscribers to Amazon Prime and other development tools for interested Alexa building. Amazon is investing heavily conversational skills to expand his wizard voice and connect better, other technologies, part of a race against Google and other tech giants. The company last year boasted that it had more than 10,000 employees working on Alexa and devices. The beefed-up Echo Studio, directed by music lovers, costs $200 and comes with 3D sound. Shares of Sonos, whose main business is digital audio speakers, fell as much as 3.3% after the announcement of Amazon. Many owners use of intelligent speakers to listen to the devices primarily for music or streaming radio stations or podcasts. Amazon has recently sharpened its focus on Audiophile, high-definition music starts before the streaming service this month and in a similar event a year Device ago, has developed a series of introduction subwoofers, amplifiers and other electronics profile Alexa as a music hub improve. However, these devices have not been hits the mass market, and some of them are among the most poorly evaluated gadgets, online Echo Amazon. Photo copyright-picture Alliance Alliance dpa / picture via Getty I
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