Amazon’s assistant, Alexa – AMAZON
Nov. 4 (Portaltic/EP) –
Alexa will be four years old on November 6 in Spain, a territory in which in the last year users have interacted with it 5,000 million times, resulting in 11 billion interactions throughout the country since it is available.
Alexa is the voice-controlled virtual assistant created by Amazon initially launched in November 2014 in the United States, where it arrived alongside its line of Echo smart speakers. Its operation is similar to that of other assistants, such as Siri, Cortana or Google Assistant.
According to the latest data recorded by the technology company that develops it, the user growth has exceeded 40 percent in just 12 monthsas indicated by the person in charge of Amazon Alexa in France, Italy and Spain, Gianmaria Visconti.
“This allows us to trust that we are on the right track and that, increasingly, [Alexa] It is part of Spanish families,” said this Amazon Alexa manager in a statement sent to Europa Press.
These users use Alexa in various ways in their daily tasksto the point that the assistant has become another member of households in Spain thanks to its interactive functions.
Only in the last 12 months have they registered 5 billion interactions with users residing in Spain, thus adding 11,000 million interactions in that territory since its implementation four years ago.
In the past year the assistant has scheduled 46 million reminders and 157 million timers, as well as setting 182 million alarms at the request of users in Spain.
Also, his characteristic ‘multitasking’, capacity that allows you to perform several actions simultaneously, justifies that in 2022 591 million actions have been activated through the ‘Routines’ functionality.
The figures have also been good around the number of new Alexa users during the mentioned period, since this year alone these have grown by more than 40 percent and more than 40 percent of homes with Alexa in Spain have more than one connected device.
On the other hand, the brand has indicated that in this time more than one billion interactions related to the digital homeas well as 261 million requests to turn the lights on or off and check the thermostat, among other actions.
Another of the trends of Alexa users in Spain is information, since 27 million news queries have been made and 124 million questions about the weather. On the other hand, they have used the assistant up to 47 million times to go to the supermarket, using its shopping list function.
Regarding its communication services, Amazon has revealed that in the last year 15 million calls have been made through Alexa and that users have made ‘drop-in’ four and a half million times.
With this functionality, Alexa allows you to make instant calls and hands-free between Echo devices in the home, as well as granting permissions so that other external contacts can make calls through this system.
MUSIC AND LOVE, MAIN CLAIMS OF THE ASSISTANT
Among some of the most frequently asked questions by users in 2022 are ‘Alexa, how old is the sun?’ or ‘Alexa, what saint is today?’, as reflected in the latest Amazon records. Likewise, six million commands have been given with the request ‘Alexa, I love you’ only in this year.
Likewise, music is one of the great protagonists of Alexa functions, since in the last year 317 million hours of songs have been played (equivalent to 36,000 years of music). In the entire life of the assistant in Spain, songs have been played a total of 645 million hours.
However, the company has noted that only in the last 12 months has Alexa doubled the hours of music playback in Spanish homes, compared to the previous three years. In addition, the most requested song in 2022 is ‘Tacones Rojos’, by Sebastián Yatra.
Amazon has finally encouraged users to congratulate the assistant on his birthday, which they will be able to do from next November 6 to the 13th of this month. Those who do can unlock an exclusive surprise.
