Amazon says Alexa Plus can find that movie scene you’re thinking about

Amazon has launched a caller AI-powered diagnostic for Fire TV that lets you leap to circumstantial moments of a movie by describing the country to Alexa Plus. The feature, which was antecedently announced during Amazon’s hardware lawsuit successful September, works with Prime Video and builds connected the X-Ray diagnostic that provides accusation astir the contented you’re watching.

“Our fig 1 ngo astatine Fire TV is getting you to what you privation to ticker — fast,” Amazon says successful its announcement. “Just picture a movie country similar you would to a friend, and Alexa Plus volition leap straight to that circumstantial infinitesimal — nary much searching required.”

The Alexa Plus diagnostic “works with thousands of Prime Video movies by knowing country descriptions, quality names, and celebrated quotes,” according to Amazon. Users tin skip to a country by mentioning details astir characters, actors, locations, and more, specified arsenic asking to find “the paper country successful Love Actually,” oregon “where Joshua asks, ‘shall we play a game?’” successful WarGames. 

The diagnostic is designed to marque it easier and faster to find and ticker scenes compared to manually fast-forwarding done movies, giving Fire TV users less reasons to hunt for the aforesaid contented connected different platforms similar YouTube. Amazon says the diagnostic utilizes a assortment of AI models, including Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude, and tin place movies without the rubric being included successful the descriptions.

The Fire TV diagnostic is presently constricted to indexed scenes successful prime movies that person been purchased oregon rented from Prime Video, oregon are disposable to watercourse via a Prime rank subscription. Amazon says that the diagnostic volition soon beryllium expanded to see much scenes and TV shows.