Alexa Voice Service Expands to Canadian French, with Sonos, Bose, Harman Kardon, Logitech, Jabra,...
Since November 2017, Canadian customers have used Alexa devices to stream millions of songs, access thousands of skills, and control their smart homes...
Use Alexa to Update Your Home’s Intercom System
Do you have an intercom system in your home that was installed when the house was built? You know, the ones with a Master...
Machine-Labeled Data + Artificial Noise = Better Speech Recognition
Although deep neural networks have enabled accurate large-vocabulary speech recognition, training them requires thousands of hours of transcribed data, which is time-consuming and expensive...
Amazon’s latest Echos show the smart home space hitting its stride
Amazon’s Echo lineup got a refresh earlier this year that included a brand new version of its basic Echo, well as an Echo...
Introducing New Alexa Healthcare Skills
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Alexa Skills Kit now enables select Covered Entities and their Business Associates, subject to the U.S....
Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests
Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center walked out today to protest the company’s response to COVID-19 infections among its...
Alexa, Why Are Employees Looking at My Data?
Craig Lloyd
Everyone’s been talking about Bloomberg’s report that Amazon workers are listening to the voice recordings created when you speak to Alexa. But Amazon...