While the original Echo and Google Home were relatively popular, it was the introduction of their smaller, more affordable ...

(1) See Echo voice calling. (2) A programming interface (API) that allows developers to add Amazon's Alexa speech and natural language recognition to their applications. Introduced in 2016 as a ...

Yoffie, David B. "The Voice War Continues: Hey Google vs. Alexa vs. Siri in 2022." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-465, June 2022. (Revised July 2022.) ...

While it's not sophisticated enough to be sentient, Amazon 's Alexa voice assistant is an amazing feat of engineering. It can respond to hundreds of commands, often in almost conversational ways.

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Packaged inside a Pringles can-shaped speaker called an Echo, Alexa moved into 5 million homes in just two years, including my own. The Verge explores how far the voice assistant has come in a ...

Amazon collects data from smart home devices, including voice recordings, transcripts, and timestamps for voice commands.

For the voice, [Thomas] decided to use the CRT ... he turned it into a rudimentary oscilloscope that shows Alexa’s waveform in real time. An acrylic enclosure shields the CRT’s high voltage ...

A mere 24 years later, in 1992, Apple brought computer voice recognition into the real world when then Apple ... and Amazon's Alexa has brought voice recognition powered by AI and machine learning ...

Abigail Barnes loved her voice assistant. Now it lives in the drawer. "I used [my Amazon Alexa] to turn on the lights or set a timer, and as a speaker for books and podcasts," says the 43-year-old ...

Alexa was never supposed to have an app store. Instead, it had “skills,” which Amazon hoped developers would use to connect Alexa to new functionality and information. Developers weren’t supposed to ...