Given its Amazon we're talking about this wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Stay away.
Amazon Echo - anyone have one?
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Given its Amazon we're talking about this wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Stay away.
Glad I'm not the only one.
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Don't think Siri pick up voice commands across the room.
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My friend's been testing one for a while so I need to find out how it's been now it's launched.
Smart tvs already do this
Bevause it lets them use big powerful cloud compter farms to do the voice recognition work rather than the tv itself.
But it does warn it may pick up orher conversation
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I remember that, around 2000 time!
Not sure if to go with the Echo (£100) with it's average always on speaker or the Dot (£50) and use my bluetooth UE Boom. Boom has a better speaker but I'd have to manually switch it on when I want to listen to music.
Heard the Echo is better at picking up audio too.
Heard the Echo is better at picking up audio too.
Been watching this in the US.
Sonus will be joining it next year apparently allowing you to control that so the dot might be the more interesting one (and cheaper obviously too)
Not sure whether to wait till Google Home though as I have a number of Nest products already.
That said I use IFTTT a lot so it would work OK with both.
Sonus will be joining it next year apparently allowing you to control that so the dot might be the more interesting one (and cheaper obviously too)
Not sure whether to wait till Google Home though as I have a number of Nest products already.
That said I use IFTTT a lot so it would work OK with both.
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Just ordered one. I am going to integrate it into my home automation controller.
I do have a reasonable expectation that it will be a bit rubbish and sit on the shelf unused!
I do have a reasonable expectation that it will be a bit rubbish and sit on the shelf unused!
i do find it amusing that people are willingly moving into a 1984 type world.
I decided to get one because it seems like a fun gimmick that'll be a novelty for a while and wasn't as expensive as I thought it might be. Dunno why but I thought something like this would come in at around £200, bearing in mind how much a reasonable wifi/bt connected speaker costs on its own. If the national rail integration works well it will also be useful in the morning to avoid faffing about with a phone app.
The reviews I read seemed generally positive about the voice control, I'm a bit of a sceptic and expected it to have problems letting me choose what music I want to listen to. If I can just bark out requests to play a specific song or album name by a specific artist and it works properly, then I'll be happy.
I also can't find the charging cable for my existing bluetooth speaker.
The reviews I read seemed generally positive about the voice control, I'm a bit of a sceptic and expected it to have problems letting me choose what music I want to listen to. If I can just bark out requests to play a specific song or album name by a specific artist and it works properly, then I'll be happy.
I also can't find the charging cable for my existing bluetooth speaker.
I know this gets banded around a lot but is there any actual proof it does this. People used to say the facebook app also did this but it turned out to be BS. However facebook do record meta data about allsorts.
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if you have an apple watch it you can use siri to control the lights play music etc ..
did look at the echo but would have no need after reading about it as siri can do pretty much all of that (Apple Echo system at home)
