The generative-AI assistant is recruiting Indian users to trial Hindi voice support, with no public launch date yet.
2026-06-23 · by Moe Ameen
Amazon has started testing its generative-AI assistant Alexa+ in India, inviting select local users to trial a Hindi-language version. According to reporting from TechCrunch and others, the company emailed some customers asking them to fill out a form, written in Hindi, to join the beta-testing program. The reported deadline to submit the form was June 22, 2026. The invitation reportedly cautioned that the beta software would have bugs and might give inaccurate information or mispronounce local nuances.
Alexa+ is the conversational, generative-AI overhaul of Amazon's voice assistant. Amazon announced it in February 2025 and made it available to all US users in February 2026, then expanded it to the UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and Germany with support tailored to local languages and contexts. India would be a notable addition: Amazon launched the original Alexa there with English in 2017 and added Hindi in 2019, so the assistant already has a Hindi history — but Alexa+ is a different, AI-driven experience.
The headline challenge for India is not Hindi alone, it is code-mixing. More than 600 million people speak Hindi in India, and many switch fluidly between Hindi and English mid-sentence — the pattern often called Hinglish. A generative assistant that wants to feel native has to parse that mixed speech, not just one language at a time. Amazon confirmed it is testing Alexa+ in India but has not disclosed a launch date or local pricing. In the US, Alexa+ is free for Prime members and $19.99 per month for non-Prime users; how it will be packaged in India has not been announced.
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No. As of this writing Amazon is only beta-testing a Hindi version with invited users, and it has not announced a public launch date or India pricing. Alexa+ is live in the US, UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and Germany.
Alexa+ is Amazon's generative-AI rebuild of the assistant — more conversational and capable than the original. The original Alexa launched in India in English in 2017 and added Hindi in 2019; Alexa+ is the newer AI-driven version now being tested in Hindi.
The challenge is less Hindi itself and more code-mixing. Many Indian users blend Hindi and English in the same sentence (Hinglish), so the assistant has to understand mixed speech and pronounce local nuances correctly, which Amazon's own beta notice flagged as a work in progress.
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