Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise

Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by sisk on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:14AM (#11253390)

Those are the two biggest differences, for sure.

All the big players have done a good job of speech to text (at least for USA English—saw an Englishman have to break into his best John Wayne impression for an on-stage demonstration about a month ago). But the Echo hardware does a great job of isolating your voice and the platform allows us to write skills for it quite easily.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the other guys make steps in a similar direction if the Echo continues to succeed.

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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by neves on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:02PM (#11254524)

It's impressive how some Google services are worse for other languages. It is better understanding my poor spoken English than my native language. Even the simple dictionary doesn't a lot of basic conjugations that doesn't exist in English, like the for the pronoun "We". These subtle differences in technology are a great lever for English speaking countries.

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