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Re:Amazon Echo by oscargrouch on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:28PM (#8568251)
>Echo's brain is in the cloud, running on Amazon Web Services so it continually learns and adds more functionality over time.
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Re:Amazon Echo by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:35PM (#8568326)
How can it "hear" the wake-word if it's not already continually working?
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Re:Amazon Echo by Someone1234 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:44PM (#8568403)
https://www.qualcomm.com/videos/snapdragon-voice-activation
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