Views: 59For those of us who long for the day when we can say the word “Computer” and our Amazon Echo would respond, that day has finally come! Now Alexa users can change their ‘wake word’ from the generic ‘Alexa’ to ‘Computer’. Here’s how to change it: Logon to the Alexa app (http://alexa.amazon.com). Select Settings > […]
Views: 12 There’s a common gripe with the Amazon Echo, Google Home and other voice-guided helpers: You have to stand within their listening range to make use of them. Not quite the Star Trek future you were promised, is it? NVIDIA, however, might have a fix: It just introduced the Spot, a hybrid mic and speaker that brings Google Assistant to every […]
Views: 21The Amazon Alexa device has been getting some not-so-good press lately. Questions have been raised about Alexa’s always on feature. Some privacy experts have expressed concerns about the device’s “always-on” feature so it’ll respond to one’s voice when thy say the activation name. But what the media didn’t mention is, there IS A WAY to […]
Views: 5005New technology is never perfect,” Alyssa Pereira reports for The San Francisco Chronicle. “Amazon, one of the latest companies forced to reckon with such imperfections in their own products, is now finding itself apologizing to a family for an embarrassing snafu.” “The family’s parents, who recently bought an Echo Dot equipped with ‘Alexa,’ Amazon’s virtual personal […]
