Tag: alexa

• More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

  July 12, 2019

  We’re focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of… more ›

• Amazon’s VP of Alexa Devices on Working in Voice Technology, Taking Risks, and Alexa’s Hidden Tricks

  May 24, 2019

  Let’s say you want to be a part of building something great in your career—something people can tangibly benefit from, something no one else has thought of, and something you… more ›

• Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer

  February 19, 2019

  If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›

• Co-Parenting With Alexa

  May 1, 2018

  Co-Parenting With Alexa » “You are going to have a chance to play with Alexa,” I told my daughter, Grace, who’s 3 years old. Pointing at the black cylindrical device,… more ›

• Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel

  March 6, 2018

  Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel » In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Thirumalai, a computer scientist who’d left IBM in 2005 to head Amazon’s recommendations… more ›

• Amazon’s Alexa is now a feminist, and she’s sorry…

  January 18, 2018

  Amazon’s Alexa is now a feminist, and she’s sorry if that upsets you » more ›

• new-aesthetic: Amazon’s $200 Echo Look will…

  April 28, 2017

  new-aesthetic: Amazon’s $200 Echo Look will judge your outfits – CNN Zeynep Tufekci on Twitter: “With this data, Amazon won’t be able to just sell you clothes or judge you.… more ›

• Billboard Power 100 Cover: Amazon's Jeff Bezos &…

  February 9, 2017

  Billboard Power 100 Cover: Amazon's Jeff Bezos & Steve Boom on Starting a New 'Golden Age' for Music » Bezos and Boom come in at No. 12 on Billboard’s 2017… more ›

• AirPods, Spectacles, watches and Alexa

  January 31, 2017

  “AirPods, Spectacles, watches and Alexa” – http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/1/30/mobile-20 more ›

• So, as for bots, there is a platform power play…

  January 31, 2017

  “So, as for bots, there is a platform power play here, and for me the fact that Alexa uses ‘voice’ is less interesting that its overlap with Spectacles - the way… more ›