hello everyone thanks for tuning in again we're gonna go through all the
latest news updates and the newest features for your Amazon Echo series of
products you can see all the brand new products that Amazon announced here just
a little while ago and we're gonna go through all the new features for their
great voice assistance so let's get going all right now sitting beside me
here is the Amazon Echo plus and the Amazon Echo dot now this is the brand
new second-generation device and the brand new third-generation device but if
you're talking about the Amazon Echo so that's the sister device to these two
and the Amazon Echo dot those two devices combined own 44% of the smart
home speaker market right now when you add in the Amazon Echo plus you get rate
close to that 50% mark of the smart speaker capture there so by comparison
the Google home and the Google home Mini own eight and seven percent respectively
now just a few days ago if you're in the US you will have access now to what's
called whisper mode so sometimes when you turn these speakers up really loud
and then you ask them a question you are really going to get a loud response and
so sometimes you might want to just have it be quiet
and so what amazon has done is they've added to their application and you can
go into the settings of that application and basically if you follow that down
you can go ahead and turn on whisper mode you can also ask your Echo to turn
on whisper mode for the device now once you do that if you whisper to your
device it will actually whisper back or be quiet or back to you
now of course Amazon is always trying to expand the market so I'm here to welcome
people from Italy and Spain to the Amazon Echo and of course the voice
assistance ecosystem here you're able to preorder a whole suite of Amazon devices
and get that voice assistant in your home so that's rolling out here right
away and there are all kinds of skills that have been developed specifically
for those markets on top of a number of
speaker makers and product makers electronic product makers like Sonos and
Bose who have ensured that they have products coming with the voice assistant
on board now this might be my favorite update this week and it's a little bit
of a technical one so bear with me for a second Amazon has released an API for
connection of smart home cameras to their system here and what that actually
means is instead of just having the ability with certain devices like the
ring suite of devices to you know have your Echo show bring up the camera you
are going to be able to have a number of developers who can do that within their
ecosystem here and on top of that what you're going to be able to do is create
functions like or use functions like two-way communication and with those
devices as long as they're plugged into this API correctly you're going to be
able to trigger things like lights so outdoor light bulbs turn on the lights
when someone shows up at a certain time in your home we've seen the integration
of Amazon and Microsoft going on here in the smart home assistant world we've
seen Amazon's voice assistant integrated with Cortana and vice versa on different
devices now of course with that going on the Xbox one is a very important device
to Microsoft and so we've heard about these these skills getting created and
the ability to control the Xbox but that is now available in the US so you're
able to go ahead turn on the device start application start games start and
stop take take pictures of different things or capture different things on
your device so there's a whole suite of commands that you can go ahead and run
through here with your voice assistant on the Xbox here's another update that
kind of talks about the future and again I think this is a pretty interesting
update I like these kind of technical ones Qualcomm
is a chip maker that produces chips for all kinds of things all over the world
so what they've done is they partnered with Amazon and they've created
basically a chipset that allows headphone maker so bluetooth headphone
makers to go ahead and basically get the voice assistant on board so this is an
easy way for companies like Bose and Sony and and other makers like that to
go and create one of Amazon's voice assistant here that onboard their
headphones based on that chipset so this should bring a lot more of Amazon's
voice assistant to your headphones if you haven't seen the little robot Enki
this little robot basically it'll travel around it can follow you for some time
it has its own little voice assistant on board that company has announced that
they will bring Amazon's voice assistant on board and integrate with it now they
haven't said that they're actually going to place a voice assistant on board
because they already have theirs and what's interesting is we know Amazon for
a while has been through what's called project Vespa been building their own
voice enabled robot to travel around follow you around your home so this is
interesting and I wonder in the end if Amazon is just going to buy this vector
company and get that robot if you own an Amazon Echo right now you can go ahead
and sign up for Sirius XM Radio for three months so this is kind of the
trial we see is Sirius XM put out that trial quite often but as an Amazon Echo
owner you can go ahead and sign up for that basically at any time on top of
that there are a number of options for people who want to get an Echo Dot so if
you're a brand new subscriber to either the Sirius XM all access or Sirius XM
premier subscription you're going to get an Echo Dot for free on top of that now
if you go ahead and you upgrade from Sirius XM select to Sirius XM all-access
you're also going to receive an Amazon Echo Dot so there's a couple of
options there for you if you're already a customer there's one option and if
you're going to sign up or you're thinking of signing up you can go ahead
and get one of these brand-new Echo Dots if you haven't already heard of extra
they're a smart wallet producer and they have a number of features on their
earlier models of wallet now they've gone ahead and produced another
Kickstarter campaign here called extra 3.0 they really don't name it anything
else now you can imagine within this video what we're about to talk about but
there is now going to be on this extra 3.0 integration with Amazon's voice
assistant in terms of the ability to locate your smart wallet so that's very
interesting and good capability actually no I wish I would have worn my Ironman
shirt here for this little update but there's a company called Jarvis that cen
sells some motorcycle helmets and they're intended to be smart motorcycle
helmets now there's a couple of new models coming out here the Jarvis X and
the Jarvis X AR and both of these devices they're relatively expensive
just for example the Jarvis X is $1000 Canadian or about 750 dollars u.s. now
the AR device actually is intended to have basically an AR an alternate
reality screen in front of you and show you the speed and your cornering and how
you're doing on those things but what's happening as well is there's intended to
be integration with the voice assistance here so you're going to be able to start
your music listen to your music there as you're going and obviously that's going
to pair through smartphones so if you don't know who Marshall is you haven't
been following rock music or just basically music for a long time now
Marshall is a UK based amplifier builder that's been around well as long as I
have so now what they've come out and done is created basically small versions
of their amplifiers with Amazon's voice assistant onboard now they have two
models here the Stanmore two is a 309 it's a little larger than the actin -
both of them are enabled with that Amazon voice assistant and both of them
are also equipped with far-field microphones that have noise canceling
technology on them so sometimes what we hear as feedback is that these devices
in a noisy space or when they're playing loud music and I've experienced this
myself they can't always pick you up when you're requesting something or
you're asking them to do something for you these speakers are intended to their
starting pre-orders basically right away and will ship on November 9th you might
be surprised to hear that a million people asked Amazon's voice assistant to
marry them in 2017 now I keep hearing the commercials that say that or that's
feature where somebody on the commercial is asking Amazon's voice assistant to
marry them or saying that they love Amazon's voice assistant now you know I
thought that was a bit of an on advertisement but now I kind of get it
there are people actually doing this not something I expected now there's kind of
two sides to this story and the first thing is just that that's interesting
that people like this voice assistant that much that they go and do that the
other thing is how does Amazon know that and that's the piece for me that I don't
think anyone's talking about just yet are they actually logging who is doing
that kind of thing or is this just anonymous data that they kind of build
up over time my hope and my expectation is that it's the latter and that they're
not you know logging everyone who ever asks that either way I'm going to do it
right now will you marry me I don't want to be tied down in fact I can't be I'm
amorphous by Nature that's actually a pretty good response
either way I think it's very interesting than a million people have gone ahead
and asked that question of their Amazon Echo Echo Plus or Echo Dot so anyways
guys there have it that's all the newest updates of
course we have all these new reviews unboxing setups and of course what's
coming next are all of the tutorials that are necessary with so many brand
new devices here from Amazon so stick with us on the channel thanks for
watching everyone and we'll see you next time