Amazon reveals 'Hey, Disney' assistant and Mickey Mouse stand for Echo Show 5

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon is successful the midst of announcing a slate of caller products and updates, including a collaboration with Disney. There are 3 components to this team-up: The "Hey, Disney" aftermath word, the Disney Magical Companion, and a Mickey-inspired basal for Echo Show 5. Here's what you request to know.

'Hey, Disney'

Amazon and Disney are offering a caller dependable adjunct (more connected that below). You tin entree it connected Echo devices by saying, "Hey, Disney". This Disney-branded property unlocks an interactive Disney experience. It fundamentally brings characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars to your Echo - on with related jokes, interactive trivia, and greetings. There are adjacent audio environments, called "soundscapes", which are inspired by Disney films.

"Hey, Disney" volition motorboat successful 2022 for guests astatine Walt Disney World edifice rooms. More specifically, guests staying astatine Walt Disney World Resort hotels volition find an Echo Show 5 successful their rooms to entree the "Hey, Disney" acquisition and get answers to circumstantial questions specified arsenic what clip the parkland opens, the fastest way to the park, and truthful on. Or they tin marque impermanent work requests - similar ordering nutrient from country service.

Disney besides plans to marque "Hey, Disney" disposable to the wide nationalist adjacent year. It volition beryllium an add-on that anyone tin bargain with their Echo device.

Disney Magical Companion

The "Hey, Disney" acquisition we described supra volition really beryllium guided by thing called the "Disney Magical Companion".

It functions arsenic Disney's mentation of Alexa and was developed “from the crushed up” by Disney utilizing Amazon's Custom Assistant. This fundamentally made it casual for Disney to make its ain customized dependable assistant, built connected Alexa technology. The companion's dependable has not yet been revealed, but it seems similar Disney utilized a existent dependable histrion for the sound, and it volition beryllium "male-sounding". We'll support you posted arsenic we larn more.

Mickey-inspired basal for Echo Show 5

Finally, Amazon a Mickey Mouse-themed basal for Echo Show 5 from Otterbox. At the moment, Amazon has not revealed the merchandise day oregon pricing. But you tin spot a teaser representation of the basal astatine the apical of this article.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 28 September 2021.