Last year, Amazon announced the beta release of Alexa Guard, a new service that lets customers who are leaving the house instruct their Echo devices to ...
Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Amazon Echo, so in a talk I gave yesterday at the Web Summit in Lisbon, I looked at how far Alexa has ...
Sound detection is a popular application of today’s smart speakers. Alexa customers who activate Alexa Guard when they leave the house, for instance, ...
Jonathan and Kathy, an Orlando-based couple, were out visiting a neighbor a few days before Christmas 2020 when Jonathan got an unusual alert from their ...
In June, one of us (Prem) wrote a blog post for Amazon Science arguing that Alexa, and more generally, the field of AI, is entering a new “age of self” in ...
This week, the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) got under way in virtual form, to be followed by an ...
As usual at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), a plurality of Amazon’s accepted papers concentrate on ...