LG Announces Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant Voice Control for Appliances

LG is touting Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice control in its newest SmarThinQ smart washer and dryer debuting at CES. Users can issue voice commands to turn the appliances on or off, pause a load and monitor status, said the company. A smart pairing function in the dryer chooses the optimal setting for the drying cycle, it said, and the dual inverter heat pump dryer can run two loads at once, while drying a third at low temperature, it said.