Re:Amazon Echo Show
by sailfast on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:51AM
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Yes - though it's not listening and you need the voice remote to be in your hand and/or you need to spin up the app on your phone. While that doesn't sound like a barrier to much, it definitely has been for me asking for simple things especially from across the room. Voice interfaces are good for hands-free action, which FireTV doesn't really allow.
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As someone who owns both an Echo and a Fire TV Stick, I found it initially surprising that the Echo couldn't control things on the TV. I also found it surprising that the same APIs returning voice responses had been returning data about things to display on a screen the whole time.
This seems like an obvious product for those who completely buy into the Alexa ecosystem.
Re:Amazon Echo Show
by odonnellryan on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @02:55PM
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Yeah. I really meant Alexa being able to control my TV.