This is another thing that makes you wonder why companies expose APIs to their services that enablenothers to make competing services.
They can revoke your access at any time.
The $10 Echo
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#12I thought it was about experimental startup providing echo service for $10/month subscription :)
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#13I'm being a pedant but doesn't an Echo have a mic built in? Buying an equivalent one would be ~£75 I think.
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Silly. The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. Detection of the wake word is hardware-based. Nothing is recorded and sent until the wake word is uttered and after that only the part until you finish your question. If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet.
(Yes, I love my echo)
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#15I love my echo (alexa), especially the convenience of "no button but wake word" when I have my hands full in the kitchen.
That said, google voice is so much better at parsing my questions that I'd pay a bunch of money for another standalone device with wake word which would integrate with with google voice.
Any chance of hacking that, or linking your device with both? (Ask Amazon / Ask Google)
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Silly. The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. Detection of the wake word is hardware-based. Nothing is recorded and sent until the wake word is uttered and after that only the part until you finish your question. If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet. (Yes, I love my echo)
What do you use it for? I love the idea of Echo, but I can't think of enough I'd do with it to warrant buying one.
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#17If you want to try this in your browser, the guy who built this $10 device also used the same APIs to put Alexa/Echo in the browser.
http://sammachin.com/hacks-and-projects/alexa-in-the-browser...
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#18One of the more impressive things about the Echo is its far-field mic. I've used a lot of different voice recognition technologies, but Echo blows everything else away in terms of being able to speak in a normal voice from the other side of the room and have it still understand you. The actual intelligence behind the service may be lacking (or at least behind some of the competition), but for a general-purpose home application, the mic (in my opinion) is a significant part of Echo's reliability and success.
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#19One of the more impressive things about the Echo is its far-field mic. I've used a lot of different voice recognition technologies, but Echo blows everything else away in terms of being able to speak in a normal voice from the other side of the room and have it still understand you. The actual intelligence behind the service may be lacking (or at least behind some of the competition), but for a general-purpose home a…
This is what is going to make Echo the next big computing platform. The voice recognition just works. It's like being on the Enterprise.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Silly. The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. Detection of the wake word is hardware-based. Nothing is recorded and sent until the wake word is uttered and after that only the part until you finish your question. If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet. (Yes, I love my echo)
What do you use it for? I love the idea of Echo, but I can't think of enough I'd do with it to warrant buying one.
Ever tried to call somebody while cooking? As a dad who spends most of his home time in the kitchen cooking and cleaning and parenting, hands-free tech is glorious.