Amazon to bring opt in notifications to Alexa

Amazon’s Alexa is going to add a new feature that is opt-in notifications, with this it is becoming more of an assistant as people wants to get notified about important details through Alexa. People want more ways to interact with the digital A.I. This new update will bring several interesting features with it such as new, weather forecast, location of your friends and family, food order location, shopping updates and many more. People who are interested in Opt-in notification can sign-up. Initially, opt in new feature will be available to small group of selected partner skills and will be able to use this kind of notification. Only few partners will have this feature enabled at launch to allow the makers to test the functionality on their products which include Life360, Just Eat, AccuWeather. Using Software and hardware kits of Amazon, new built in feature will be made available to devices.

The good thing is that it's upto you whether you want to see notifications or not. If you wish to see notification then you will have to  ask Alexa what are my notifications? Or what did i miss? For that you just have to enable notifications on a skill, you will get status updates to a device from skill. User will then be automatically alerted with the LED green light and a beep on your Echo Dot, Echo Show or Amazon Echo if there’s any new notification for you. Before turning it off you have to acknowledge the alert notification. Alexa also inform users about the latest breaking news. Or if at anytime you don't wish to  see notifications and gets interrupted  or wants to temporarily suspend notifications then you can switch to ‘Do Not Disturb Mode’ mode on your device.  Amazon is trying to compete with big companies like Google and Microsoft in the field of voice enabled home assistant.

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Amazon will soon launch this update in coming months which will bring a big change to Alexa-enabled devices. Skills will send you the information requested be users instead of just responding human asked information. Whether you want to increase sales of gain user’s trust then push notification can be very effective tool. On the other side if they keep on getting notification they will cancel the alerts. They can cancel it temporarily as well as permanently.

This is a great news for companies that are trying to connect with Alexa platform. The one big difference between Alexa-enabled devices and normal mobile phones is push notifications. This shows that google home, your smartphones and tablets are their biggest competitors.