Amazon’s Alexa Together wants to help you care for family remotely
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is announcing a new subscription service called Alexa Together today during its invite-only fall hardware event. The company's new $19.99 per month service offers the same features as the free Alexa Care Hub and will eventually replace it as Amazon's tool for caring for family members remotely in 2022.
Like Care Hub, Alexa Together can notify you when a family member uses their Alexa device, offer a feed of interactions they had with the assistant throughout the day, and function as a quick way to get a hold of each other in the case of an emergency. Alexa Together adds new emergency features like hands-free access to an urgent response emergency helpline" and compatibility with fall detection devices from ATS and Vayyar.
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