Amazon’s Alexa will now listen to commands in Hindi and ‘Hinglish’

Amazon announced that its digital assistant Alexa will now support interactions in Hindi or Hinglish. The brain that powers all Amazon Echo devices, the feature shall now also be available on all its voice-controlled smart speakers.

With this update, users can now ask Alexa for diverse Hindi content such as jokes, shayaris, games, Kabir ke dohe, Panchatantra stories, Bollywood dialogues, more than 500 Alexa skills, and even spellings of words in Hindi. She will also be able to understand customers speaking to her completely in Hindi or Hinglish, in multiple contexts, and varied regional accents, Amazon said in a statement.