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Well it's arrived, and is the same size as a tin of filter coffee. And it seems Jeff Bezos thinks that a 3" speaker is a woofer. Presumably the chap is an enthusiast for Yorkshire Terriers. Will report back. As it happens I have to hoover out the coffee grinder this evening so I'll do it to the Java Jive played by Alexa. A slice of onion?
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Both Google and Amazon have recently released clients for their respective voice control platforms (Echo, Home) on the Raspberry Pi. This provides a fix for the big misgiving I have always had with these devices - The Always-On (or software controlled) microphone. Effectively you can now build a voice control device with a physically switched microphone connection and be certain no-one is listening in when they shouldn't be - I'm thinking a big red push-to-make mushroom button. I've spent a few hours playing around with the browser based Echo interface (echosim.io) and see enough possibilities to investigate further. It's clear that customising the experience by writing personalised Apps/Skills/Actions is going to make things a whole lot more useful, especially if integration with IFTTT (or similar) can be achieved. Does anyone have any experience of these devices (good or bad) and has anyone played with coding for these things ?
