New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on February 13, 2020) follows:
NVIDIA introduced an Android TV-based media player called the Shield back in 2015 which was refreshed in 2017 with a 16 GB variant. However, in 2019 another variant of the NVIDIA Shield was launched with powerful processors and a more compact form factor.
For naive, the latest version of NVIDIA Shield comes with NVIDIA® Tegra® X1+ processor with a 256-core NVIDIA GPU and 2 GB RAM, 4K and Dolby Vision support, along with Dolby Atmos as well. It offers 8 GB of onboard storage and runs on Android 9 Pie.
But according to some users, they are facing a bug with the Alexa voice assistant. New users of the NVIDIA Shield are not able to use the Alexa assistant on their device. This issue was first reported about a few months ago and is still going strong.
You can dozens of reports highlighting this issue on Reddit or even in the official NVIDIA forum. You can check out some of the reports below:
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Taking into consideration the severity of this issue, NVIDIA has finally acknowledged this issue and a solution will be made available in the future.
In the meantime, users of Nvidia Shield need to wait for the fix to arrive on their devices. Let us know in the comments below if you are also facing this issue with Alexa voice assistant on your Nvidia Shield?
Update (February, 17)
According to the updated post, the issues regarding Nvidia Shield TV Alexa not working has been resolved via a new update.
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