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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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[–] subtext@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.