Amazon’s next generation assistant Alexa+ to help manage users’ calendars

Mara Segal, director for Alexa, took the stage at Amazon’s annual Devices & Services event to share how Alexa+ now understands and remembers your preferences and important information, making interactions more intuitive and personalized. Segal introduced a new Alexa+ feature that enables customers to share a wide range of documents with Alexa+, from emails and manuals to family recipes and study materials. Alexa+ can extract and recall relevant information from these documents, providing helpful summaries and adding events to your calendar based on specific requests. If you don’t have time to read multiple emails from the kids’ school, you can now forward them to Alexa+ to distill the essential information for you. Once Alexa+ has your email, you can then ask questions like “do I need to bring anything to the school fundraiser?” Alexa+ also seamlessly integrates with Alexa-enabled devices and “transforms your smart home,” the company said.