Why Amazon Echo Should Actually... Echo!
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 3/21/2017 1:00:00 AM
The Amazon Echo is one of my favorite gadgets, but it's lacking one feature that would make it even better, the ability to echo back what you say to it.
I originally posted this idea at least a year before I stated posting videos and it was one of my most popular topics. The essence of the idea is simple, in addition to all the cool things the Amazon Echo can do, I think the Amazon Echo could open the door to an entirely new service... a Personal Voice Database in the cloud.
Here's how it would work. You say something to Alexa like "Alexa, Frank's wife's name is Gladys", and at a later date, you can ask "Alexa, what's Frank's Wife's name?" and it would respond with your original voice message telling you the date.
In essence, it's like using Alexa as an intelligent voice recorder that indexes and archives all your messages, but instead of simply transcribing it, it keeps the original recordings so that when you play them back, there won't be any errors in the transcription.
Naturally, for this to be effective, the system still needs to transcribe what you say, but it only uses the transcript for indexing the keywords. Once you do a search, you'll hear your original recordings.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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