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Amazon Launches Alexa+ in India With Child Safety Controls
Amazon has brought a new version of its Alexa assistant to India.
It is called Alexa+.
Alexa+ can understand conversations in English, Hindi, and Hinglish.
It can help people control smart-home devices and plan activities.
It can also help with shopping, meals, travel, music, and entertainment.
Amazon says Alexa+ is designed to work with many services people already use.
Children can use learning features and quick quizzes.
The device can adjust to a child’s age.
Parents can use controls to manage or delete a child’s profile and recorded utterances.
Amazon launched its generative AI-powered Alexa+ assistant in India on September 16, 2026.
Alexa+ supports natural conversations in English, Hindi, and Hinglish across several services and devices.
Amazon says the assistant can help with smart-home control, shopping, meal planning, reservations, travel, music, and entertainment.
The assistant includes age-adaptive learning features, quizzes, and parental tools for managing children’s profiles and utterances.
Amazon says Alexa+ uses multiple models and was built from scratch rather than being a simple Alexa upgrade.
- Who
- Amazon, including Alexa India Country Manager Teena Sidana and Alexa International Vice President Michele Butti, launched Alexa+.
- What
- Alexa+ is a generative AI-powered personal assistant with conversational, personalized, and action-oriented capabilities.
- Where
- The launch was for the Indian market.
- When
- Amazon announced the launch on September 16, 2026.
- Why
- Amazon said Alexa+ was designed to provide localized assistance, work with commonly used services and devices, and offer child-friendly features with parental controls.
Key facts
- Product
- Alexa+, Amazon’s generative AI-powered personal assistant
- Market
- India
- Launch date
- September 16, 2026
- Languages
- English, Hindi, and Hinglish
- Children’s features
- Age-adaptive conceptual learning and quick pop quizzes
- Parental controls
- Parents can manage or delete profiles and add or remove selected utterances through the Alexa app
- Connected services
- Smart-home control, shopping, meal planning, restaurant reservations, travel planning, music, podcasts, films, and entertainment
Quotes
Teena Sidana
Amazon’s Country Manager of Alexa in India
“It is very important for us to make the experience kid friendly...the experience caters to conceptual learning for the kids, the device adapts to the age of the child as well.”
thehindubusinessline.com
Michele Butti
Amazon’s Vice President of Alexa International
“It’s not a large language model (LLM). It uses multiple models to do multiple things for customers and therefore, it can be a very sophisticated complex model..”
thehindubusinessline.com
Sources
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