LG Electronics announced its latest flagship TVs with ThinQ AI in January 2019 and last year, the company said that it would integrate Google Assistant on their 2018 TVs with AI ThinQ. Expanding the support for virtual assistants from various companies, LG today announced that it will begin rolling out Amazon Alexa support in 14 countries to the company’s 2019 TV models featuring artificial intelligence. 2019 LG TV models with ThinQ AI support will be getting Alexa support soon through a software update. The feature will be initially available in 14 countries which includes Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. Users will receive the update through the Alexa app in LG ThinQ AI TVs including LG UHD TVs, NanoCell TVs, and OLED TVs. With the Alexa app, owners of compatible LG TVs can ask questions, control smart home products, access over 90,000 Alexa Skills and LG says that the 2019 TVs can understand hundreds of voice commands and handle requests of greater complexity than ever before. As Alexa is built-in, new updates and features for the voice service will be rolled out directly to users of LG AI TV from now on. Apart from ...
Thursday, 23 May 2019
LG starts rolling out Alexa support to 2019 AI ThinQ TVs; AirPlay support coming later this year
LG Electronics announced its latest flagship TVs with ThinQ AI in January 2019 and last year, the company said that it would integrate Google Assistant on their 2018 TVs with AI ThinQ. Expanding the support for virtual assistants from various companies, LG today announced that it will begin rolling out Amazon Alexa support in 14 countries to the company’s 2019 TV models featuring artificial intelligence. 2019 LG TV models with ThinQ AI support will be getting Alexa support soon through a software update. The feature will be initially available in 14 countries which includes Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. Users will receive the update through the Alexa app in LG ThinQ AI TVs including LG UHD TVs, NanoCell TVs, and OLED TVs. With the Alexa app, owners of compatible LG TVs can ask questions, control smart home products, access over 90,000 Alexa Skills and LG says that the 2019 TVs can understand hundreds of voice commands and handle requests of greater complexity than ever before. As Alexa is built-in, new updates and features for the voice service will be rolled out directly to users of LG AI TV from now on. Apart from ...
