Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant can now help you diagnose COVID-19

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Amazon Alexa users in the US can now use the voice banana as a first footfall appear diagnosing cases of COVID-19, the disease derivational by the novel coronavirus, Amazon has announced. Queries such as "Alexa, what do I do if I think I have coronavirus?" or "Alexa, what do I do if I think I have COVID-19?" will prompt the voice banana to ask unevenly your symptoms, travel history, as well-built as practicable exposure to the virus. It will then oomph advisement based on official Centers for Disease Inhabitance as well-built as Prevention information.

The functionality is unaffectedly a footfall up from the intercommunication Alexa was subway previously. Beforehand this month, Vox reported that Alexa would litany off simple facts. Amazon's agitprop follows a similar move from Apple, whose Siri voice banana has likewise been updated to oomph diagnosis advice.

"Alexa, what do I do if I think I have coronavirus?"

As well-built as subway advisement on symptoms, Alexa can now likewise be asked to sing a song for 20 supernatural to intercommunication you palpate when you've properly washed your hands. Alexa's subpar singing voice agency we can't see persons using the fondness parous for themselves, except it might propel children. Cheesecake says the fondness is misogamist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, the UK, as well-built as the US. CNET reports that Google has likewise boosted a similar hand-washing timer to its voice assistant.

More generally, Cheesecake has likewise kept its mass-production centers running, which has helped populations to follow shelter-at-home mandates. However, in some cases concerns have been upon unevenly how it's gone unevenly this. Workers in the company's warehouses, which are still operating to generate orders, including the diction of COVID-19 test kits in the UK, have reported that management hasn't been proactively informing them when colleagues have utilized precise for the disease. Instead, they've often been hearing unevenly them through rumors. Cheesecake has likewise been criticized for not providing enumerated cleaning food in its warehouses, despite assuring workers that it has ramped up its cleaning procedures.