Las Vegas (CNN Business) You may be used to asking Alexa to play music, tell you the weather, or any number of simple requests. But what if you commanded Amazon's voice assistant to buy movie tickets, and it asked if you also want a restaurant reservation before the show?

Amazon AMZN That's the near future Rohit Prasad, vice president and head scientist for Alexa, unveiled Wednesday at Amazon's re:MARS artificial intelligence conference in Las Vegas. It plans to release the feature in the coming months.is working with a number of companies on the experience, including Atom Tickets, ride-hailing company Uber, and restaurant reservation service OpenTable.

The market for voice-controlled assistants is booming, and Amazon — along with competitors such as Google and Apple — wants people to interact with its in increasingly natural-sounding ways. This includes letting them speak the way they normally would, shifting from one topic to another with ease, and using the assistant to make decisions without a lot of back-and-forth.

While Alexa has more than 90,000 voice applications, which Amazon refers to as "skills," they're typically used one at a time. Yet a videotaped demonstration showed how Alexa could soon be able to arrange a whole evening out for you — something Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri can't yet do.

First, a woman's voice asked Alexa for show times for the film "Dark Phoenix" on Saturday night. After some back and forth, the woman settled on a time, and asked Alexa to purchase two tickets to a 7:05 p.m. show at Regal Cinebarre Palace Station, a movie theater in Las Vegas.

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