What is the name of Amazon's voice assistant?

Amazon's voice assistant is called Alexa. Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based virtual assistant, built into products such as Echo smart speakers and also available through software on phones, tablets, computers, and other connected devices.

Alexa can respond to spoken commands using automatic speech recognition and natural-language processing. People use it to play music, set alarms and timers, ask for weather or news, create lists, play audiobooks, and control compatible smart-home devices. Its extra capabilities are called “skills,” a term that is broadly comparable to apps on other platforms.

Alexa first became widely associated with the Amazon Echo family, including the Echo Dot, Echo Studio, and Amazon Tap. The technology drew on systems Amazon acquired, including Evi and the speech-synthesis company Ivona. A common mix-up is treating Alexa as the name of the speaker itself; Echo is the hardware family, while Alexa is the assistant and voice-service technology running on it.