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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by StudentStuff on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:25AM (#18844127)
Hrm? Google Home can make calls (uses the google voice # of the account paired to it).
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by walterbell on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:30AM (#18844389)
Echo can use a landline for the outbound call.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by StudentStuff on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:15AM (#18853369)
How is this better than the Google Home/Google Voice integration? Seems significantly more complex, and reliant on the end user having a working home phone line
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by walterbell on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:07PM (#18857784)
Echo can dial (VOIP) without a landline, same as Google Voice/Home.

If you have a landline and want your outbound Echo calls to have the same caller ID as the landline (so that people can return/screen calls), then Echo is the only option for voice dialing.

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