Episode 294 Alexa's New AI Voice

We discuss a bug in Follow-Up Reminders and how to get past it. We also take a look at Reminders & Tasks, and Home Modes. 

We take a look at CES 2026, an various Amazon Announcements and Press Releases.# AttributionDTNS 5178Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qTUj2ZMFyw 

Would you want my voice to be the voice of your Alexa? An interesting raise that can change people’s vocal accents in real time. Instagram rolls out a comprehensive system to check ages on their platform. And is that new Brave search engine becoming a contender? Sponsors: HubSpo ...  Show more

This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing and a special news briefing with Sam Altman. Then, we explain why we were underwhelmed by Amazon’s new Alexa+, which is powered ...

Episode 49: How close are we to living in a world where AI voices sound indistinguishable from humans? Matt Wolfe ( https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands ( https://x.com/NathanLands) delve into this cutting-edge technology. In this episode, the hosts explore groundbreaking AI voi ...  Show more

AI voice technology has been around for years — think Siri or Alexa — but the magic has been missing. That’s changing, and quickly!

In this episode, Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z, and Olivia Moore, Partner at a16z, explore why AI voice is reaching a breakthrough ...