In an announcement made via a blog post, Nest has revealed that it has officially collaborated with Amazon for the integration of the Amazon Alexa voice assistant with Nest thermostats.

According to the announcement, the collaboration between Nest and Amazon will enable the users of Nest thermostats to set their devices to a specific temperature – or increase or decrease the temperature - by giving voice commands to Alexa.

Announcing the collaboration between Nest and Amazon, Matt Rogers -- the founder of Nest and the chief of Engineering -- said that the first official collaborative effort by the two companies will be launched in a few weeks.

Revealing that one of the commands which Nest thermostat users will be able to give to Alexa would be "Alexa, set my bedroom thermostat to 68 degrees," Rogers said in the blog post that, with Alexa learning new skills in the near future, users will be able to give more useful commands to the voice assistant, including commands like "Alexa, tell the thermostat that I'm too hot."

With regard to Nest’s collaboration with Amazon Alexa, Rogers said that users who have an IFTTT system will have “more options,” and added: "Nest and Alexa already have over 50 recipes that allow you to turn on the fan or just say 'good morning' to turn up the heat. Alexa will even listen if you have a Vivint home automation system."