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Amazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon.It was launched in November 2011 for Amazon Fire and Fire Phone, [1] and a Fire TV version was launched in November 2017. [2] The addition of Silk to the Echo Show was announced at an Amazon event in September 2018.
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.
Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into artificial intelligence. In a note to employees on Friday, Daniel ...
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]
Xumo: Watch other streaming services. I had been using SmartTV (and before that, Amazon Fire Stick; and before that, Roku) to watch streaming services, but with Xumo, you won’t need those.
Alexa Internet, Inc. was a web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded as an independent company by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in 1996. Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on over 30 million websites. [3] It was acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock. [4]
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Bruce Gilliat (born May 5, 1959) is the co-founder and former chief executive officer of Alexa Internet. [1] [2] A precursor to Alexa was the joint founding with Brewster Kahle of the first initial Internet Archive named the Wayback Machine in 1996. [3] [4] On April 1, 1996, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat founded a company called Alexa Internet.