Learning French with Alexa

Lauren Stephen
6 min readMay 17, 2021

My experience using the Amazon AI’s multilingual mode

Photo of Amazon Echo Dot 2, on coffee table with books

Amazon introduced a multilingual mode to its Alexa AI in 2019, starting in three countries: Canada, India, and the United States. Since late 2019, I have been interacting with Alexa in both Canadian French and English, switching back and forth from one sentence to the next without changing any setting.

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Lauren Stephen

Writer, editor, technical writer, part-time lecturer, and semi-professional stand-up comic based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.