Reuters Staff / Reuters For all of Alexa’s many skills, one major thing Amazon’s voice assistant is currently missing is the ability to distinguish who is actually speaking to it. According to a new report from Time magazine, however, the online retail giant is currently working to make that a reality. As Time‘s sources inside […]
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Enlarge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxNHgYUz6s reader comments 58 Share this story A maker of Internet-connected stuffed animal toys has exposed more than 2 million voice recordings of children and parents, as well as e-mail addresses and password data for more than 800,000 accounts. The account data was left in a publicly available database that wasn’t protected by a
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by Brandon Russell | February 27, 2017 In an upcoming update, Amazon’s Alexa will be able to distinguish between different voices, according to a Time report. The feature will apparently provide users in a given household with a “Voice ID,” and give Alexa the ability to tell who is talking to it. The feature is
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Yamaha is bringing Amazon Alexa voice control to its expansive family of acclaimed MusicCast wireless multiroom audio products. “Telling Alexa to play your music and hearing it synchronized throughout your home with Yamaha sound quality is an extraordinary experience.” — Bob Goedken, general manager, AV division. Buena Park, California (PRWEB) February 27, 2017 Yamaha is
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Yamaha is the latest company to work with the Alexa voice assistant. Sarah Tew/CNET Yamaha has announced that its multi-room system MusicCast will soon take orders from the Alexa voice assistant. “MusicCast is the most versatile and powerful wireless multiroom audio system on the market, and the integration with Amazon Alexa makes it even easier
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Because Android is an open-source system, Motorola could replace Google with Alexa, if desired, and that looks like what the plan is going to be for now. Theoretically, you soon may be able to have two voice personalities on your smartphone: Google and Amazon’s Alexa. Wonder if they will give each other orders. Wonder if
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Tech Data CEO Bob Dutkowsky fired back at Arrow Electronics, saying the company doesn’t need its own semiconductor operation to have a robust Internet of Things practice. “The idea that you have to be end-to-end in that little [IoT] space doesn’t make any sense to me,” Dutkowsky told CRN after closing the $2.6 billion acquisition
From the moment you wake up until the time you go to bed, personal assistant products like Google Home and Amazon Echo are always listening. The devices are designed to connect to your smartphones, email, streaming services, even thermostats.They know what you watch, what you buy and how your pay for it. Many experts say
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