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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It shouldn't take a subscription to manage turning on lights.

You can very easily do it locally.

[–] ripcord 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With voice control?

[–] subtext 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which is why I said

If the Home Assistant voice Appliance stuff can get its shit together and I can get one for reasonable prices I will move to that (or something like it) instead.

Unfortunately, when I looked most recently it still wasn't even remotely close to being ready. Particularly the hardware options.

[–] subtext 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They say that you can build one for $13.

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/

They also have on their roadmap that they’re working to see if they can build or engineer ~~out~~ or whatever an all in one, easy to set up voice satellite hardware as one of their next up priorities.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/12/roadmap-2024h1/

[–] ripcord 2 points 6 months ago

Once the second thing happens, assuming it's any good, then I will look into switching again.

Until then, there don't seem to be many great options.