Amazon plans to add its smart assistant Alexa to eight new products ranging from a microwave oven to an in-car gadget, all of which will be unveiled at a special event later this month.
According to the CNBC news website, Amazon will unveil eight new products this year that include a subwoofer, an amplifier and a receiver, according to an internal company document.
"The new devices reflect Amazon's ambition to make its own Alexa voice technology everywhere by focusing on the areas where most people spend their time, the home and the car," the website adds.
He said that Alexa was initially considered an eccentric experiment for Amazon, but he is now one of the most popular voice aids and led the growth of the smart speaker market, which is expected to reach $ 30 billion by 2024, according to Global Market Insight.
The product range is a milestone for Amazon and is the result of the company's move to the home appliances market for the first time.
The CNBC report also suggests that the new products are likely to be a blow to well-known competitors such as SONOS and GE, where Sonos has an AKS-compliant amplifier and sound booster, GE also has a microwave oven Can be linked to Alexa.
Bloomberg news reports that Amazon is working on some kind of home robot, and earlier this year the company bought the ring manufacturer of smart doorbells.
Amazon does not disclose the number of sales of its flagship product, the Eco Voice Amplifier, but previously said tens of millions of Alexa's supporting devices are sold worldwide.
In July, CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement that they wanted customers to be able to use Alexa wherever they were.
"There are currently tens of thousands of developers in more than 150 countries developing new devices using the Alexa audio plugin, and the number of devices that support Alexa has more than tripled in the last year."