Alexa is four years old in Spain and you won’t believe how many times we used it in 2022 | technology

It is one of the most used assistants in the world and one of the most important to Amazon. Alexa, the virtual assistant of Jeff Bezos, celebrates his birthday in Spain and is approaching five years. That’s all he did at this time.

On November 6, 2022 Alexa He is four years old in Spain and eight years since he was born in the United States. The virtual assistant From Amazon has become an industry standard, at the level of Cortana, siri s The Google (who has no name).

Amazon It shows that during these four years, Alexa He has been learning about our country, adapting our expressions…and our dialects, which is very difficult and can only be achieved with a lot of trial and error. Hence the company’s efforts to present it everywhere.

Last year, Alexa users in Spain interacted with it five billion timesThus, he added 11 billion interactions in the Spanish territory in these four years. This is more interaction than humans on Earth.

To celebrate its anniversary, Amazon has given us a bunch of interesting characters around it virtual assistantone of the most widely used today and one of the most relied upon when manufacturing speakers, smartwatches and televisions.

Alexa Numbers: This is how you work in Spain

Curiosity is one of the most distinctive elements of Spanish users. According to the company, these two are The most frequently asked questions in our country: “Alexa, how old is the sun” and “Alexa, what saint is today?”.

Of course, if in Spain we stand out for something, it is because of displays of affection. And Alexa doesn’t run away from them: Six million received “Alexa I love you” in 2022 alone. Yes we are a little heavy.

Only in the last twelve months, Alexa has programmed 46 million reminders and 157 million timersas well as the composition of 182 million On-demand alerts of users in Spain.

The creation of routines in Alexa has become a great ally for all those who need to do several things at the same time: just in the past year, 591 million actions are activated through this functionality.

It is worth noting that more than 40% of homes with Alexa in Spain have more than one connected device, and in this year alone, the number of Alexa users in our country has increased by more than 40%.

In addition, more than 1 billion interactions related to the digital home have been recorded (related to home automation)In the last twelve months besides261 million requests for Alexa to turn the lights on or off or check the thermostatamong other things.

Being in the know is one of the trends for Alexa users in Spain: they have been 27 million people consulted the news And 124 million people asked about the weather.

In addition, Alexa is a good companion when going to the supermarket: 47 million times in Spain the Alexa shopping list function was used. In terms of communications, last year 15 million calls were made in Spain via Alexa to speak.

And of course the kitchen. This is still the great protagonist of the past year Alexa has provided more than 1.6 million recipes through the cooking skill of Cookpad, Being one of the most sought-after torriga, gazpacho and yogurt cakes.

Where Alexa gets the box, the music

Music is the obvious protagonist, with 317 million hours of music played Alexa this year (equivalent to 36 thousand years of music) and 645 million since it came to our lands.

In the past 12 months alone, Alexa has doubled the hours of music playing in Spanish homes compared to the previous three years. And the most requested song of 2022 is “Tacones Rojos” by Sebastian Yatra.

If you want to greet Alexa on November 6th, Amazon warns that there is a surprise if we say: “Alexa, happy birthday.” And users who congratulate Alexa on her birthday until November 13th will be able to unlock an exclusive surprise.