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The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

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Post by jacksmith21006 »

StevePerkins wrote: post #6
melling wrote: post #3

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Someone put an Echo Dot in my stocking. I’ve been ranting about these devices for a while and even recently wrote a little blog post: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte... Is it worth getting a Google Mini too? I’m told that it’s actually smarter. I’m going to set up my Echo so I can reorder all the stuff I hate to shop for. We’ve been waiting half a century for “Voice as a User Interface”.…

I would say that the Amazon Echo is generally better at DOING STUFF (e.g. setting alarms and reminders, playing music, adding stuff to your Amazon shopping cart ( of course ), controlling your TV if you have a Fire stick, etc). Supposedly controlling smart home gear, although I haven't dipped my toes in those waters yet. The Google Home is generally better at ANSWERING QUESTIONS and providing information. Random quer…

Have both the Echo and now several Google homes. The Google home is a lot easier than the Echo to get it to do stuff. The reason is the GH does not require rigid language or basically commands you have to have memorized like the echo.

So it is a lot easier to use and especially for kids and older people.

You can talk to the GH more like you would talk to your wife.

I think of the Echo as using a command line and the GH a GUI.

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Post by eecks »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #343
eecks wrote: post #188

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The word Google isn't as nice to say as Alexa. I don't have the problems you seem to have with Alexa. It works perfectly.

I wonder if your feelings are related to the Bouba/Kiki effect.

Just googled what that is. It could be!

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Post by garybro »

tedmiston wrote: post #366
garybro wrote: post #322

I bought my parents five Dots for Christmas to use as intercoms. They live on a farm, with multiple outbuildings, so if something happened, they can yell at the Echo in the building they are in for help. Any other use they get out of it (my dad uses the music feature a lot) is just an added bonus.

Do they have wifi in all of those farm buildings?

Yes.

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Post by Trav5 »

adjkant wrote: post #66
Trav5 wrote: post #42

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And Samsung Voice can't do anything well.

I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. What voice interface system would you like to criticize again?

S Voice by Samsung, found on the Gear S3. It's a watch with a full color screen and a cell modem, an amazing bit of hardware. Voice command does not work well at all though. I would love having Google Now on it.
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