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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by officemonkey on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:25AM (#11217349)
Don't forget the harried parent of a child with low impulse control.

These things would be a lot less "Big Brother" for me if I had a mic key in my pocket that would only turn the mic on when I squeezed it.

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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by niels_olson on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:37AM (#11217444)
Hey buddy want to bet that Amazon is using this massive collection of voice to text to sell to other companies like Apple and Google?
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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by officemonkey on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:57AM (#11217615)
Riight, because Siri doesn't generate enough voice data for apple.
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