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**Chris** · Today, 10:51

Yeah, Amazon’s lower tiers have always limited your ability to tell it exactly what you want to play. Spotify tried something similar on their free tier years ago but I think they abandoned it when they started haemorrhaging users.

The thing I found with Alexa years ago was once the conversational novelty wore off (you can only ask her to open the pod bay doors so many times), it really isn’t very clever at all. Just a voice-activated search engine with a few specific smart-home commands tagged on. In our house it’s mainly used as an intercom to summon kids for tea.

I hope the ‘plus’ means more than upgraded conversation. It could really do with some proper AI, which standard Alexa definitely isn’t.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,377	Re: Alexa+ Early Access now in the UK Yeah, Amazon’s lower tiers have always limited your ability to tell it exactly what you want to play. Spotify tried something similar on their free tier years ago but I think they abandoned it when they started haemorrhaging users. The thing I found with Alexa years ago was once the conversational novelty wore off (you can only ask her to open the pod bay doors so many times), it really isn’t very clever at all. Just a voice-activated search engine with a few specific smart-home commands tagged on. In our house it’s mainly used as an intercom to summon kids for tea. I hope the ‘plus’ means more than upgraded conversation. It could really do with some proper AI, which standard Alexa definitely isn’t.