Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat

Re:Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hij... by ghaff on Saturday March 12, 2016 @09:44AM (#11273046)

That's actually a good example though. I can give it a precise incantation to play a particular album, playlist, channel, or artist and it works (mostly). I can't in general tell it to play some "soothing jazz."

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Re:Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hij... by sp332 on Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:09PM (#11273799)

You can tell Google Now, Cortana, or Siri to play jazz. Siri recognizes "smooth jazz" (And Google might, but it froze up on me). Curating moods of music is, so far, kind of a niche thing that is mostly left to humans like Pandora's music genome project, or Apple's Music service.

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Re:Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hij... by Tnoyt123 on Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:32PM (#11273870)

Actually, you can. I just asked mine to "play some soothing jazz", and it loaded up a jazz playlist.

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Re:Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hij... by ghaff on Saturday March 12, 2016 @02:10PM (#11274032)

I guess I picked a bad example :-) On the other hand, you do either have to pick from pretty broad categories or have to go with a specific list that you or someone else has curated. But it's a hard problem.

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