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In the default mode, the device continuously listens to all speech, monitoring for the wake word to be spoken, which is primarily set up as "Alexa" (derived from Alexa Internet, the Amazon-owned Internet indexing company). Echo's microphones can be manually disabled by pressing a mute button to turn off the audio processing circuit. [3]
In telecommunications, a voice operated switch, also known as VOX or voice-operated exchange, is a switch that operates when sound over a certain threshold is detected. [1] It is usually used to turn on a transmitter or recorder when someone speaks and turn it off when they stop speaking.
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [3] [4] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.
It follows more recent layoffs in Amazon’s gaming and music teams, and also adds to the 27,000 employees the company laid off during the later parts of last year and earlier this year. Amazon ...
To use Xumo, you need to be a Spectrum cable TV subscriber and a Spectrum internet customer. Currently, most Spectrum customers get cable TV access through what’s called a “set top box,” or ...
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Early home automation began with labor-saving machines. Self-contained electric or gas powered home appliances became viable in the 1900s with the introduction of electric power distribution [3] and led to the introduction of washing machines (1904), water heaters (1889), refrigerators (1913), sewing machines, dishwashers, and clothes dryers.