{"id":1662,"date":"2020-07-29T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2022-08-26T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:57:13","slug":"alexa-20-amazing-stats-and-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/stats-facts\/alexa-20-amazing-stats-and-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa &#8211; 20 Amazing Stats and Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/alexa.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/alexa.png 697w, https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/alexa-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol><p><li><strong>What does Amazon Alexa do:<\/strong><ul><li>Alexa is a <a title=\"Cloud CRM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/all\/business-benefits\/cloud-crm\/\" title=\"CRM\"><strong>cloud-based<\/strong><\/a> voice service that provides AI based virtual assistant. It provides assistant by activating the devices wake-word followed by command, say \u201cAlexa, what is the time\u201d.<\/li><\/p><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Developer name<\/strong>: Amazon<\/li><li><strong>Initial released on:<\/strong> November 6, 2014<\/li><li><strong>Why Alexa named Alexa<\/strong>: The name Alexa has hard consonant with the X, has high precision<\/li><li><strong>Who is Alexa&#8217;s voice:<\/strong> Samuel L. Jackson<\/li><li><strong>Female voice of Alexa:<\/strong> Kesha Williams<\/li><li><strong>Do Alexa always listens:<\/strong> Alexa is designed in way, that it can listen when it is called upon.<\/li><li><strong>Alexa supporting platforms:<\/strong> Amazon Echo, Fire OS, iOS, Android, Cortana and Linux<\/li><li><strong>Languages supported by Alexa:<\/strong> English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Hindi.<\/li><li><strong>Number of countries using Alexa: <\/strong>41 Countries<\/li><li><strong>Total Number of employees work for Alexa:<\/strong> 10,000 employees<\/li><li><strong>Amazon Alexa devices have been sold:<\/strong> 100 million Alexa devices<\/li><li><strong>Total number of devices supported by Amazon Alexa: <\/strong>20,000<\/li><li><strong>Number of functional skills Alexa have:<\/strong> 90,000<\/li><li><strong>Most popular Alexa skill:<\/strong> Setting a timer<\/li><li><strong>What is Alexa Skills Kit: <\/strong>A self-service APIs and tools that used to build Alexa skills<\/li><li><strong>Sports team can add to Alexa for receiving regular updates:<\/strong> 15 teams<\/li><li><strong>Top 3 Competitors or similar products:<\/strong> Siri, Google home, Cortana.<\/li><li><strong>Interesting fact about Alexa:<\/strong> Developers are able to create their own smart home skills using the Alexa Skills Kit.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One interesting news:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice is the new normal: Now, you can ask Alexa, &#8216;What&#8217;s my bank balance&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does Amazon Alexa do: Alexa is a cloud-based voice service that provides AI based virtual assistant. It provides assistant by activating the devices wake-word followed by command, say \u201cAlexa, what is the time\u201d. Developer name: Amazon Initial released on: November 6, 2014 Why Alexa named Alexa: The name Alexa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[358,126,356,357],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stats-facts","tag-20alexafacts","tag-alexa","tag-alexastats","tag-amazonalexa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}