Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff
Amazon launched always-listening Bee Frontier and Eclipse devices that can suggest purchases.
Amazon announced two always-listening Bee devices: the $74.99 Bee Frontier wearable, available now, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized phone attachment coming soon. Both produce summaries, transcripts, insights, and to-dos from conversations and can connect to services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple HealthKit. A $11.99 monthly Bee Pro plan adds unlimited summaries, app integrations, and opt-in Amazon and Alexa Plus features that can surface shopping suggestions. Amazon says its Private Compute design encrypts transcripts and does not store audio.
- Bee Frontier costs $74.99 and is available in three colors.
- Bee Eclipse, priced at $99.99, is a phone-mounted device coming soon.
- Bee Pro is $11.99 monthly and adds Amazon shopping suggestions.
- Amazon says transcripts are encrypted and audio recordings are not stored.
- Other speakers are unidentified unless they opt in to voice training.
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Last year, Amazon bought Bee, a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices - and a new subscription to go with them. First is the $74.
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