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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by saagarjha on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:12PM (#18841955)
“Ladies in cans” have a power source that allows them to continuously listen and send back audio.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by maccio92 on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:17PM (#18841985)
And so does you phone.. how often do you have your phone on you and it's NOT on?
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by saagarjha on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:21PM (#18842000)
No, it really doesn’t. Phones run on batteries and continuously listening to and streaming audio would cause them to quickly die.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by pvorb on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:52PM (#18842128)
Maybe they actually do? For example, the 2017 version of the Nokia 3310, according to Nokia, can have calls of ~22h. And that's for a small 1300mAh battery. So it's technically possible to stream audio for a very long time. Maybe smartphones are doing the same in a very low-powered stand by mode?
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