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Everything that’s affected when you teach Amazon’s Alexa to recognize your voice

This week, Amazon made it possible to teach Alexa to recognize your voice. Once you’ve completed the voice training process and created a voice profile, Alexa will be able to distinguish your voice from the voice of others who use the same Echo devices. Here’s a detailed breakdown of Alexa’s various features that are affected when the voice assistant recognizes the speaker. Most changes focus on improving Alexa use in a multi-user household, but somes actually improve Alexa even if you’re the only one using your devices.

Before getting into the details of how Alexa changes once it recognizes the speaker, it’s important to know that, currently, only the Amazon Echo (1st & 2nd gen), Echo Dot (1st & 2nd gen), Echo Show, and the upcoming Echo Spot and Echo Plus are the only devices that support voice recognition. Alexa on Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, Amazon Tap, Dash Wand, and in the Amazon app will not recognize who is speaking.