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I snagged a free Echo Dot when Amazon accidentally had a 100% discount a few weeks ago (Which they honored!).Its an interesting piece of hardware (I wish I could say the same of the required setup app). Ultimately, I'm not too interested in using voice interfaces as they currently are. I'm not trying to knock the product, I feel the same about Siri and Google's assistant. Lots of improvements have been made, but its…
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I have an Echo and I feel like the voice features are not as a good as Google's offerings. You can do a few things really well with the Echo but once you go outside of what it can do, it's dumb as rocks. You can't ask it basic questions that Google assistant has no problem with.
The Google Assistant is spotty at best. It does do some things Alexa can't do but the opposite is true as well. I can ask the Google Assistant to call anyone in my contacts and it happens, if I ask for a map to their house it fails horribly.
Ah, this reminds me of the Chumby ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby ) from 2008, I'm sure with voice recognition and video call capabilities, the Echo is hopefully a bit more useful.
Does it have a camera? I didn't see it mentioned in the specs or anything about video calling.
The speed of iteration on the Alexa product line is really impressive. Nine months ago, Alexa and Google Home seemed like two sides of the same coin. But now it feels like there's almost no comparison, Alexa is gonna do more and get the skills and features that fit my needs faster. I'm a Google Home owner, so perhaps it's a case where the grass is always greener :-)
The speed of iteration on the Alexa product line is really impressive. Nine months ago, Alexa and Google Home seemed like two sides of the same coin. But now it feels like there's almost no comparison, Alexa is gonna do more and get the skills and features that fit my needs faster. I'm a Google Home owner, so perhaps it's a case where the grass is always greener :-)
I'm an Alexa owner, and wish to god the two companies could get along at all. It feels like I'm punished regardless of the ecosystem I choose - if I use the Google Home, I miss out on the Alexa product line upgrades and there's no option comparable to the Dot for sprinkling around my home. On the other hand, on Alexa I can't say "play fleetwood mac in the living room" (via chromecast). That single feature is nearly e…
But Alexa does seems to have a head-start with third-party integration and services. So for now I own one of each. I'm hoping that maybe both of them will reach parity at some point and I can finally settle on one of them.
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But if I want to play a show on my Fire TV Stick, do I still need to use the Alexa microphone in the remote, or can I talk to my Echo?
I believe you can now use your echo to control the fire tv
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Does it have a camera? I didn't see it mentioned in the specs or anything about video calling.
The Technical Details ( https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-MW46WB-Introducing-Echo-Spot/d... ) indicates a "Front Facing Camera".
The speed of iteration on the Alexa product line is really impressive. Nine months ago, Alexa and Google Home seemed like two sides of the same coin. But now it feels like there's almost no comparison, Alexa is gonna do more and get the skills and features that fit my needs faster. I'm a Google Home owner, so perhaps it's a case where the grass is always greener :-)
The speed of iteration on the Alexa product line is really impressive. Nine months ago, Alexa and Google Home seemed like two sides of the same coin. But now it feels like there's almost no comparison, Alexa is gonna do more and get the skills and features that fit my needs faster. I'm a Google Home owner, so perhaps it's a case where the grass is always greener :-)
I'm an Alexa owner, and wish to god the two companies could get along at all. It feels like I'm punished regardless of the ecosystem I choose - if I use the Google Home, I miss out on the Alexa product line upgrades and there's no option comparable to the Dot for sprinkling around my home. On the other hand, on Alexa I can't say "play fleetwood mac in the living room" (via chromecast). That single feature is nearly e…
Alexa, Siri, Google Home, Cortana.. they could all use the same standards to become interoperable.
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I just see it as adding vanity features to a mediocre product. People are espousing real fear of artificial intelligence, but since I can't get my echo to play the right radio station more than half the time, quitting after 5 failed tries ("The Current" sounds nothing like "Berlin", I'm fairly sure you could train a dog to recognize the difference) I'm not too worried about robot overlords any time soon. Get me voice…
Serious suggestion, try putting on an accent.