One of the ways that we’re always trying to improve Alexa’s performance is by teaching her to ignore speech that isn’t intended for her.At this year’s ...

At next week’s Interspeech, the largest conference on the science and technology of spoken-language processing, Alexa researchers have 16 papers, which span ...

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 ...

Every interaction with Alexa begins with the wake word: usually “Alexa”, but sometimes “Amazon”, “Echo”, or “Computer” — or, now, “Hey Samuel”. Only after ...