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Alexa is more visual

 This year Alexa gained even more compelling visual features and popped up on more smart screens, including the all-new Echo Show, Fire TV Cube, Fire tablets, and devices built by companies like Lenovo and Sony. You can ask Alexa to watch live TV, stream videos, or play your favorite music videos through new integrations from Hulu, NBC, and Vevo. Alexa now features step-by-step visual cooking features, which are great for those extra messy moments when your hands are busy in the kitchen. If you forgot the secret ingredient to Mom’s famous holiday cookies, it's easy to give her call through a new integration with Skype. And, whether you are expecting guests for dinner or waiting for a package to arrive, you can now easily see and talk to anyone at the front door through a compatible video doorbell.

We’re also seeing how the screen can make Alexa more approachable for more customers. People of all ages love Alexa and we want Alexa to be available for everyone, so we’ve rolled out features like Tap to Alexa, allowing customers to set up their own touch-based shortcuts for Alexa requests, and introduced Alexa Captions on Echo Show and Echo Spot.



Alexa connects you to more entertainment

Customers love listening to music on Alexa and Echo, and this year Amazon Music added dozens of new features to make listening to your favorite music with Alexa even easier. We also added left-right stereo mode to Echo devices, the ability to adjust the equalizer on your devices, and extended multi-room music to Alexa-enabled products built by other device makers, so you can play music everywhere in your home. Alexa can also help you find your favorite music faster with new support for Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora Premium, and more.

And it’s not just music-lovers who are enjoying Alexa. Binge-watchers and TV-lovers can now use Fire TV Cube, the first hands-free streaming media player with Alexa, to control their content with just their voice. For those of you constantly losing the remote, Alexa also learned how to set and manage DVR recordings through Fire TV Recast and other compatible devices, control TV power, and added new ways to navigate video and gaming content with integrations with Xbox, TiVo, Dish, Netflix, and DIRECTV.

Alexa is fun for the whole family

We can’t forget about fun! Alexa is one of the biggest repositories of corny jokes on Earth, and just this year, Alexa has told more than 100 million jokes. She even invited Jimmy Fallon to come and tell jokes with her – just say, “Alexa, give me a Jimmy joke.” She's also more fun for the entire family with FreeTime on Alexa, a new experience built from the ground-up just for families and kids. FreeTime Unlimited on Alexa features a growing catalog of kid-friendly content including podcasts, more than 1,000 Audible books, kids skills, Alexa Routines and more. The easiest way for families to get started is with the Echo Dot Kids Edition.

What’s next?

It feels like I barely scratched the surface of all of the ways Alexa became more helpful this year. So, where do we go from here? In 2019, we’re going to continue to work hard to make Alexa even more natural, personal and useful, so she can help you get more done. And you'll see her in more places and devices, too.

We want to take a moment to thank our customers for all of their feedback, ideas, and stories over the past year. We are humbled that you have found such value in Alexa, and I hope you are excited as I am about the year ahead.

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