The $10 Echo
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The $10 Echo
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Re: The $10 Echo
#2This is another thing that makes you wonder why companies expose APIs to their services that enablenothers to make competing services.
Re: The $10 Echo
#3This is another thing that makes you wonder why companies expose APIs to their services that enablenothers to make competing services.
Amazon doesn't care about selling the hardware. They'd be ecstatic if this caught on. It'd be like owning the kindle ecosystem without having to take a loss on the hardware.
They provide Alex-as-a-service: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo... ("Build for Free. Using AVS to power speech experiences on your devices is completely free.") (Note: I'm guessing that this will be lower accuracy than the echo, since the echo's acoustic models are probably tuned for their hardware.)
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#4Here's the service that this depends on: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...
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#6According to Alexa Voice Service page (https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...)
Amazon is starting a $100M fund for anyone building voice related services. This is very interesting. Has any company been funded via this fund?
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What if it's not a spy device?
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If you build the device yourself, you can ensure it only uses the API at a time you control. For example, you might configure a trigger word that is recognized locally.
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#9According to Alexa Voice Service page ( https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo... ) Amazon is starting a $100M fund for anyone building voice related services. This is very interesting. Has any company been funded via this fund?
The Alexa Fund page lists a sub-set of the companies that have received funding from the fund so far: https://developer.amazon.com/appsandservices/solutions/alexa...