The new Alexa+ is super great, if you've been invited to it.
The voice recognition is at a whole nother level, much much faster. Controlling lights is easily an entire second faster.
The TTS upgrade is a trip. She sounds younger and speaks faster.
The voice recognition is at a whole nother level, much much faster. Controlling lights is easily an entire second faster.
The TTS upgrade is a trip. She sounds younger and speaks faster.
How long time did it used to take VS how long time does it take now? I'm not sure "an entire second faster" is sarcasm here, big improvement or what.
I think the voice recognition is async now. It's streaming the data to a model. Before it would wait until the command was finished then send the .wav file off to a model.
I just use the Clapper from the 1970s.
https://www.amazon.com/Clapper-Activated-Detection-Appliance...
2. I tried landscape lighting once. The local fawna chewed it to bits. I decided I didn't need it.
3. I don't need to control the lights when I'm not home.
4. I have seriously no need to light according to the seasons.
Sure, a more automated system would be great for disabled people. But I'm not disabled, and intend to lift my sorry heiny out of the chair as long as I am able to.
Replaces a phone in many cases.
Humans on the other hand start processing the moment there's a response and will [usually] respond immediately without "thinking", or if they are thinking, they will say as much, but still respond quite quickly.