After about a decade in the making, new voice assistants from Amazon and Google are finally here, and while a lot has changed in the time since they were first released, the new boss, so to speak, feels the same as the old boss—a little hard of hearing.
This week, Amazon rolled out Alexa+, the company’s chatbot-powered sequel for regular, old Alexa. That means everyone with compatible Echo speakers can switch over to Amazon’s new voice assistant, which is now infused with a large…

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