Like Siri, Google Now and Cortana, Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant interface developed by Amazon. This Amazon Alexa is first used in the Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo dot smart speakers which are quite the same as Google Home. These smart speakers run on voice command to play music, weather reports, setting alarm, asking for real-time information and to do list etc.
Amazon Alexa not only available in Amazon Echo and Echo Dot smart speakers, it also available in iOS, Android, Fire TV, Fire HD and now you can enjoy it on your Windows 10 PC. Amazon developers have launched this only with some selected brand laptop like HP, Lenovo and Asus but there is no official download for everyone.
But if you have a Windows 10 PC then you can download and install Amazon Alexa on your Windows 10 PC to use it as parallel voice assistant with Microsoft’s Cortana.
So how to get Amazon Alexa on Windows 10 PC?
Before you download and install Amazon Alexa on Windows 10 PC just make sure that you have an Amazon account.
- Download Amazon Alexa from here
- Unzip the file and install Alexa_App_for_PC_Installer_1_2_9.exe file
- It will take some time to install. Once done run Alexa from Smart or taskbar
- Now you need to sign in with Amazon id
- If Update available just update it
- Now you are ready to use Amazon Alexa on Windows 10 PC
To use Amazon Alexa just open Alexa from task bar or you can use a shortcut Ctrl + Shift + A hotkey to wake up Alexa running in the background or minimized.
So go install Amazon Alexa on your Windows 10 Pc to check which one it better Microsoft Cortana or Amazon Alexa for your daily need.