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Amazon improves user experience of controlling smart homes with Alexa
Amazon highlights the challenges with your current interaction with Alexa. It believes that even though Alexa has improved the way people control their smart homes, there are still challenges. Users often have to remember specific phrases or device names, make multiple requests, or even...
Continue ReadingX-sense Smart Home Security Kit – Quick Review
Introduction There are many reasons to invest in a home security system especially in today's day and age - from providing total security of valuables to having the security of persons, and eventually to have that peace of mind that comes with knowing that everything is under your...
Continue ReadingESP32-Vaquita-DSPG Board with SDK For Alexa Built-In IoT Devices With Seamless Voice Integration
Since the recent move by Espressif Systems to go into mass production of the ESP32-S2 SoCs, modules and development boards, we have been seeing quite a number of arrivals from the company, one of which was the very first ESP32-based development board, the ESP32-S2-Saola-1 development...
Continue ReadingReSpeaker Core v2.0 – Talk with Alexa
The ReSpeaker Core v2.0 allows developers create powerful and impactful voice and sound interfaces. Suitable to use as a base for smart assistance as well as responding to environmental sounds, the ReSpeaker Core v2.0 was designed with the idea that developers deserve to have many...
Continue ReadingAn i.MX 8M Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service
Smart electronics help us save time at home especially when one cannot wait to get the party started. To provide a solution to this situation, Amazon created speakers and stereo systems, which are equipped with the Alexa Voice Service. Alexa Voice service gives a new voice experience to...
Continue ReadingEspressif Systems is bringing voice enabled kit to makers and developers
Voice Assistants are becoming more widely accepted, devices like Amazon Echo, Sonos On, and Google Home devices are seeing the larger market share. The mounting interest in voice assistants and voice-activated platforms is leading to new ways of communicating, and in theory, creating...
Continue ReadingAlexa On Every Device with the Amazon Alexa Premium Far-Field Voice Development Kit
Amazon’s Alexa is an intelligent voice-controlled personal assistant launched in 2014 and has been on an increasing demand ever since. First integrated into the Echo, the Alexa platform has been an exponential growth in the consumer industry. Amazon’s Alexa Premium Far-Field Voice...
Continue ReadingTime Machine – A Smart Clock That Does What You Say Using Alexa Voice Service
With a controller and a seven segment display, showing the time is not a so special feature, but when this clock can listen to the user and do what they want, that’s what worth highlighting a “Time Machine”. Analysing human voice and take action based on that is not so simple....
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