Amazon Echo
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Re: Amazon Echo
#2Looks similar to the Ubi: http://www.theubi.com/
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#3I'm a little frustrated at the moment -- The future is arriving with voice controlled devices, yet I don't trust any of these companies with my words.
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#4> 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.
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#5Always on. Connected to the cloud. In a recent talk Bruce Schneier called our times the golden age of surveillance.
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#6Wow. What an amazing vector for snooping.
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#7Well hang on - doesn't my iPhone already do all this? And presumably so does the Android equivalent? I appreciate this will have much better microphone technology but it still seems a little redundant.
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#8I hope it has a reasonable API. I want to program it to automatically laugh at my terrible jokes.
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#9> 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.
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#10So the product is named "Echo" but you ask it questions by calling it "Alexa"? That's just odd.