LG Electronics announced its latest flagship TVs with ThinQ AI in January 2019 and last year, the company said that it would integrate Google Assistant on their 2018 TVs with AI ThinQ. Expanding the support for virtual assistants from various companies, LG today announced that it will begin rolling out Amazon Alexa support in 14 countries to the company’s 2019 TV models featuring artificial intelligence.
2019 LG TV models with ThinQ AI support will be getting Alexa support soon through a software update. The feature will be initially available in 14 countries which includes Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Users will receive the update through the Alexa app in LG ThinQ AI TVs including LG UHD TVs, NanoCell TVs, and OLED TVs. With the Alexa app, owners of compatible LG TVs can ask questions, control smart home products, access over 90,000 Alexa Skills and LG says that the 2019 TVs can understand hundreds of voice commands and handle requests of greater complexity than ever before.
As Alexa is built-in, new updates and features for the voice service will be rolled out directly to users of LG AI TV from now on.
Apart from Amazon Alexa support, LG also announced that its 2019 OLED and select NanoCell TVs will receive AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support via a mid-year update.
Commenting on this, Brian Kwon, president of Mobile Communications and Home Entertainment companies at LG said:
The addition of Alexa support is another example of LG’s commitment to simplifying our customers’ lives. We will continue to enrich the user experience going forward with a diverse range of convenient AI services and features.