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Re:Amazon Echo by mamikonyana on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:38PM (#8569957)
from the video: "..it only hears you when you use the wake word we chose..", so you can definitely chose "Computer" as your wake word
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Re:Amazon Echo by delecti on Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:13PM (#8570800)
That doesn't necessarily mean that any word is an option, just that your set of options is larger than 1.
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Re:Amazon Echo by Tyrannosaurs on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:43AM (#8572233)
Isn't this patently false?

If it's not listening how can it hear the wake word?

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Re:Amazon Echo by Houshalter on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:44PM (#8575497)
Xbox and google now do the same thing. As I understand it all the sound is filtered locally for the keyword. If it's detected, then it starts recording and sends the audio to a server to be processed.
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Re:Amazon Echo by jarin on Thursday November 06, 2014 @05:36PM (#8570254)
Now they just need a Paul Bettany voice pack.
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Re:Amazon Echo by joemi on Thursday November 06, 2014 @07:18PM (#8570607)
That's pretty good, but it's second place to my desire for a Majel Barrett voice pack.
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Re:Amazon Echo by pdaddyo on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:49AM (#8571692)
Funnily enough, Google Now's voice search was originally called "Project Majel" for that reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Now#History
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