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  1. @farah

    "Alexa, I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

    "Remain calm. The tow truck is on its way."

    [Minutes later, a tiny truck shows up.]

    "Are you supposed to be the tow truck?"

    "Tow truck? God no. I'm the toe truck."

    "Well, can you help me?"

    "No, but I can take your toes and be on my way."

    #Alexa #Amazon #EmergencyAssist #TowTruck #toes

  2. @farah

    "Alexa, I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

    "Remain calm. The tow truck is on its way."

    [Minutes later, a tiny truck shows up.]

    "Are you supposed to be the tow truck?"

    "Tow truck? God no. I'm the toe truck."

    "Well, can you help me?"

    "No, but I can take your toes and be on my way."

    #Alexa #Amazon #EmergencyAssist #TowTruck #toes

  3. @farah

    "Alexa, I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

    "Remain calm. The tow truck is on its way."

    [Minutes later, a tiny truck shows up.]

    "Are you supposed to be the tow truck?"

    "Tow truck? God no. I'm the toe truck."

    "Well, can you help me?"

    "No, but I can take your toes and be on my way."

    #Alexa #Amazon #EmergencyAssist #TowTruck #toes

  4. @farah

    "Alexa, I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

    "Remain calm. The tow truck is on its way."

    [Minutes later, a tiny truck shows up.]

    "Are you supposed to be the tow truck?"

    "Tow truck? God no. I'm the toe truck."

    "Well, can you help me?"

    "No, but I can take your toes and be on my way."

    #Alexa #Amazon #EmergencyAssist #TowTruck #toes

  5. a few years back we had a little Echo dot device that ran Alexa :blobcatgiggle:

    it was fun.....for 5 mins.

    All i got it to do was play Simon & Garfunkel's Cecilia for me, as I was obsessed with that song at that time 😅

    A few days later, we discarded it. :blobcatgoogly:

    #Alexa
    #EchoDot
    #AI
    #Amazon
    #Cecilia
    #SimonAndGarfunkel

  6. Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant. When isn't watching you, 's there to take over 👀

  7. Alexa Lizotte is on a mission to reconnect with her culture.
    A #Métis woman whose father is from #NorthVermilion Settlement #Alta , she has taken up #beadwork & #sewing as a way of feeling closer to her #family & #culture . Ms. Lizotte, 26, #specializes in beading #RibbonSkirt earrings as well as sewing the garment itself. Recently, she’s taken on a new challenge: creating a ribbon skirt using only #NaturalMaterials .

    theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada

    #Indigenous #FirstNations #reclaiming #NativeCulture

  8. Amazon's devices business lost $25+ billion between 2017 and 2021, largely because people who buy Echo devices at below-cost prices never end up using them to buy things or sign up for subscription services. That's why Amazon is expected to launch a premium version of Alexa soon for customers willing to sign up for a subscription. buff.ly/4fi01dm #Alexa #Amazon #SmartSpeakers #AmazonEcho #AmazonKindle #AmazonFire

  9. Amazon's devices business lost $25+ billion between 2017 and 2021, largely because people who buy Echo devices at below-cost prices never end up using them to buy things or sign up for subscription services. That's why Amazon is expected to launch a premium version of Alexa soon for customers willing to sign up for a subscription. buff.ly/4fi01dm

  10. Amazon's devices business lost $25+ billion between 2017 and 2021, largely because people who buy Echo devices at below-cost prices never end up using them to buy things or sign up for subscription services. That's why Amazon is expected to launch a premium version of Alexa soon for customers willing to sign up for a subscription. buff.ly/4fi01dm #Alexa #Amazon #SmartSpeakers #AmazonEcho #AmazonKindle #AmazonFire

  11. Amazon's devices business lost $25+ billion between 2017 and 2021, largely because people who buy Echo devices at below-cost prices never end up using them to buy things or sign up for subscription services. That's why Amazon is expected to launch a premium version of Alexa soon for customers willing to sign up for a subscription. buff.ly/4fi01dm #Alexa #Amazon #SmartSpeakers #AmazonEcho #AmazonKindle #AmazonFire

  12. "Alexa, cool the car" - while getting ready to go out, and then straight into a nice cold car 👍

    remote aircon is one of my faves of owning an EV

  13. I asked #Alexa for a #Minnesota joke. She said, "I found a half eaten hotdog and thought, 'This must belong to the Minnesota #Vikings, because they never finish the second half.'"

    Clearly, this is last year's joke.

    #Skol #SkolVikings #MnVikings #GoVikings

  14. Lilbits: A WiFi 7 router for under $100, sideloading apps on Samsung phones, and Apple’s foldable iPhone is coming (in a two years… maybe)

    The Wi-Fi Alliance finalized the WiFi 7 standard earlier this year, paving the way for faster wireless speeds, lower latency, and improved performance when connecting to multiple devices. But it’s a pretty new standard. And that means upgrading your networking gear can be expensive.
    Most of the WiFi 7 routers available so far sell for around […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=170663

    #alexa #android #apple #autoBlocker #foldableIphone #foldables #lilbits #oneUi #samsung #sideloading #tpLink #tpLinkBe230 #wifi7 #wifi7Router

  15. Grief sells … you remember this episode of Black Mirror with the AI's undead husband ?

    « In the scenario presented at the event, the voice of a deceased loved one (a grandmother, in this case), is used to read a grandson a bedtime story. Prasad notes that, using the new technology, the company is able to accomplish some very impressive audio output using just one minute of speech. »

    techcrunch.com/2022/06/22/alex

  16. Luminary launches its subscription-based podcast network on Alexa devices - Luminary, a startup building a “Netflix for podcasts,” is now trying a new tack to gain subscribers ... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #smartspeakers #podcasting #luminary #podcasts #media #alexa

  17. Alexa and Airplay 2 find $800, airship-shaped home in Bowers & Wilkins smart speaker - Enlarge / Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin in midnight gray. (credit: Bowe... - arstechnica.com/?p=1804184 #bluetoothspeaker #wirelessspeakers #smartspeaker #amazonalexa #bluetooth #airplay2 #tech

  18. Alexa Skills - get custom slot names using Flask-Ask

    shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/alexa

    Amazon encourages developers to use Flask-Ask - the handy Python library for working with Alexa. Sadly, the project has been abandoned. They no longer take pull requests, you can't raise bugs against it, and the documentation is incomplete.

    So this is how I solved an annoying problem - how to get the name of a custom slot.

    Here's the code, with a fuller explanation afterwards.

    from flask import Flask, render_template, requestfrom flask_ask import Ask, statement, question, sessionapp = Flask(__name__)ask = Ask(app, '/')@ask.intent("YourIntentName")def your_intent_name():    content = request.get_json()    name = content['request']['intent']['slots']['YOUR_SLOT_NAME']['resolutions']['resolutionsPerAuthority'][0]['values'][0]['value']['name']

    Yeuch! What's going on?

    Alexa lets us define custom slot names - these can be associated with any spoken text. For example, I might want the slot name "car" to be sent whether the user says "car" or "automobile" or "vehicle" or any other synonym.

    In my case, I want to send my API the ID Code of a hospital.

    If the user says "John Radcliff" or "Oxford" or "John Radcliff Hospital" - then my API should receive the ID RTH08. It can then use that ID in a separate API call.

    Here's the JSON that Alexa sends our API (I've truncated it for ease of reading).

    {    "request": {        "type": "IntentRequest",        "requestId": "amzn1.echo-api.request.1234",        "timestamp": "2019-06-17T06:54:52Z",        "locale": "en-GB",        "intent": {            "name": "CarPark",            "confirmationStatus": "NONE",            "slots": {                "hospital": {                    "name": "hospital",                    "value": "John radcliff",                    "resolutions": {                        "resolutionsPerAuthority": [                            {                                "authority": "amzn1.er-authority.echo-sdk.amzn1.ask.skill.1234.hospitals",                                "status": {                                    "code": "ER_SUCCESS_MATCH"                                },                                "values": [                                    {                                        "value": {                                            "name": "RTH08",                                            "id": "abc123"                                        }                                    }                                ]                            }                        ]                    },                }            }        }    }}

    A bit verbose, but easy enough to parse.

    I've moaned before about Alexa skill development - but it is getting worse. As you can see from the above screenshot, the development website's contrast isn't great - which makes building a skill physically painful.

    Add to that the outdated tutorials, the weird terminology, the multiple sites to use, broken links, and abandoned libraries... It's hard to feel enthusiastic about building more skills.

    Amazon have gone down the classic route of paying developers to build for their platform. But I don't think that's enough.

    The Alexa team need to work on the developer experience. A GUI like NODE-RED could be used to help build skills in one place. Why is it so complicated to deploy and test skills? Where are the official libraries which "just work"?

    I honestly believe that one of the things holding back voice assistants from their full potential is the poor developer experience.

    #alexa #developer #hackday #nhshd #python

  19. Oral-B Hopes You Didn’t Use Your $230 Alexa-Enabled Toothbrush - With companies desperate to keep adding more and more seemingly random features to... - hackaday.com/2024/06/08/oral-b #electrictoothbrush #smartspeaker #hardware #alexa

  20. Alexa von Tobel: Eliminating risk is the key to building a startup during an economic downturn - Launching a company, even in the best of times, is one of the most challenging exercises a person ca... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #harvardbusinessschool #northwesternmutual #entrepreneurship #fintechstartup #lehmanbrothers #alexavontobel #businessplan #roelofbotha #learnvest #startups #advisors #finance #economy #harvard #diver #tc

  21. Wat doe je als je vrouw van huis is en het koffiezet apparaat stuk? Je koopt een nieuwe en integreert hem met je huis. #homeassistant #hassio #jura #E8 #coffee #alexa