Amazon debuted an updated Echo Show 8 during its live event today, highlighting the device's new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities.
on Wednesday, highlighting the device's new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities. Generative AI helps the Echo Show 8 respond dynamically to the user's position in the physical world, offering different displays depending on how far away someone is from the screen. A new language model increases the device's on-board Alexa response time by 40 percent over the previous edition.now and will start shipping in October.
In its keynote, Amazon showed off the new display's dynamic UI abilities with a weather app, showcasing larger font size when the user was far away from the screen, and changing to a view with more detail as they came closer. This is similar to the proximity features Google has included in its
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