Alexa Plus Will Summon a Movie Scene for You, and Prime Video Will Stream It

Have you ever hunted for movie scenes to replay or tried explaining one to a friend? Well, Alexa Plus can do the legwork for you and stream the scene on Prime Video. On Wednesday, Amazon announced the launch of an AI-powered feature for Fire TVs that lets you ask Alexa to find a film moment and then will have Prime Video play it. 

Instead of digging for the title or clip yourself, you can describe details, like the actors’ names, characters, quotes or a sequence, and tell Alexa to jump to that specific part. According to Amazon, if you say a phrase such as, “Jump to the scene where Violet first meets Richard at the bar” or “Jump to the Ozdust ballroom scene in Wicked with Glinda,” Alexa Plus will summon it, and it’ll automatically play on Prime Video. Using AI, Alexa Plus mines film captions and gleans from Prime Video’s X-Ray feature to find what you’re looking for. No need to remember a movie’s title, nor is there a need to press fast forward, rewind or play. 

Subscribers will need an Amazon Prime account with titles that are either included with or purchased from Prime Video. The new feature can pull scenes from thousands of movies. Amazon said it plans to add more films and indexed scenes, and the company aims to roll the feature out for TV shows, too.  

This scene-finder function launches several weeks after Prime Video introduced video recaps on the streaming service, which helps viewers catch up on past seasons of TV shows.