It's great to see Amazon using its huge profits to fund this kind of bleeding edge technology. (Maybe someday engineers will figure out how to squeeze this functionality into handheld devices.)
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#12This sounds like the creepiest tech product you could put in your home: an internet-connected microphone that can "hear you from across the room". Love the slick design, but I'll pass.
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#13> With enhanced noise cancellation, Echo can hear you ask a question even while it's playing music. I read: "Our cloud servers can hear you, no matter what." It's a killer idea. It's too bad privacy concerns might lead it to an early grave.
Absolute first thought was along similar lines. If it did all the processing locally and just fetched results I might be interested. But this? Not so much.
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#14So the product is named "Echo" but you ask it questions by calling it "Alexa"? That's just odd.
Strange choice for a wake-up word, given that it's a person's name.
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#15Didn't Amazon preview a product like this a few months ago, except that it was portable?
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#17This could be the natural next step for one click shopping. Obviously it'll be more difficult without textual or visual capabilities, but things like "Add gelato to my shopping cart"(as apposed to shopping list) would be huge for Amazon fresh shoppers and other products that aren't too ambiguous.
Another application: "Alexa, order a Dominoes pizza with extra anchovies. "
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#18This could be really sweet if they have a solid API/SDK.
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#19Please have an open API, I can think of a ton of things I would love to use this for.
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#20So the product is named "Echo" but you ask it questions by calling it "Alexa"? That's just odd.
Amazon LEXical Analysis, perhaps?