LAS VEGAS (dpa-AFX) - Luxury resort Wynn Las Vegas, operated by resort developer Wynn Resorts, is adding Echo, Amazon's hands-free voice-controlled speaker, to all hotel rooms.
In a statement, Wynn said the companies would equip all 4,748 hotel rooms at Wynn Las Vegas with Echo. The resort will become the first in the world to enable guests to control various hotel room features with a series of voice commands via Alexa, the brain behind Echo.
Beginning this month, the company will start to install the technology in suites. It is expected that Alexa will be fully operational in all guest rooms by summer 2017. Initially, it will control guest room lights, room temperature, drapery and the television. Going on, features such as personal assistant functions will be introduced.
Amazon's artificially intelligent, voice-activated assistant Alexa runs in the cloud, and it is simple and free for developers to build Alexa skills and integrate Alexa into their own products. In the US, there are already more than 6,000 skills available for Alexa.
Just ask and Alexa will answer questions, read the news, set timers and alarms, recite calendars, control smart devices in-home, and more. Echo comes with a mute button. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly said that the mute button used on devices like the Echo is harder to hack than a smartphone.
Steve Wynn, Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, said, 'The thing that Amazon has done with Alexa is quite perfect. If I have ever seen anything in my 49 years of developing resorts that has made our job of delivering a perfect experience to our guests easier and help us get to another level, it is Alexa. The ability to talk to your room is effortlessly convenient.'
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