The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by ehsankia on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:25PM (#16017737)

Yep, most people don't realize that:

1. Hotword detection runs on a minimal low powered local subsystem

2. The two provided hotwords run networks that have been trained on millions of samples in thousands of different environments.

That thing is very heavily optimized. Alexa and Bixbi get far more false positives and false negatives.

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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by jacksmith21006 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:03PM (#16036796)

This. The Google home gets far less false positives and why the wake word makes far more sense. You also do not then get accidently recorded like with the Echo.

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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by ijidak on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:27AM (#16034533)

Never thought about that, but makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation!!

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