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Amazon Echo deep experience: 7 microphones "stop killing" Siri
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After seven months' release, Amazon's voice assistant Echo was sold in the United States today, and my Echo has been on my bedside cupboard for 20 days. I will talk to him every day, but the 90% dialogue is no more than three sentences.
After seven months' release, Amazon's voice assistant Echo was sold in the United States today, and my Echo has been on my bedside cupboard for 20 days. I will talk to him every day, but the 90% dialogue is no more than three sentences.
Alexa, what's the weather in the city of XX today?
Alexa, set the alarm clock in the (next) XX XX.
Alexa, what time is it now?
The first conversation happened more before I went to work, and Echo would tell me the weather and temperature at that time and when I was in Tianshan.
The second sentence is usually what I said before I went to bed. Since I had Echo, I didn't use the alarm clock on iPhone again.
The third sentence is I at home at any time may ask the question, but the most common scenario is the alarm clock to wake up before I woke up the morning, lying in bed and asked this question, and then went to sleep; while iPhone and Apple Watch was also on the bed in my charge, but in the state of sleep. Let me choose a word or turn over raising his hand, I will not hesitate to choose the former. Even in peacetime, as long as I am not using computers or playing cell phones, I will most probably know time through Echo, because speaking a sentence is much easier than finding a cell phone, taking it up and lighting it up.
Although the Echo function is very limited, far from intelligent, but its superior speech recognition ability let me use it already has the function to achieve without the use of hand (handsfree), which also makes it become second only to Yu Zhineng and Apple Watch mobile phone products using frequency smart devices I've used so far in.
Voice wake-up, without hands-on
Echo is the most expected smart hardware I've been looking forward to this year. I got an order immediately after receiving an Amazon's reservation at the beginning of the year. Is the first of nearly five months, but the final delivery time earlier than expected, I finally got Echo in early June, and it did not let me down.
The first Echo was a lot bigger than I thought it was. The black cylinder is designed without too many bright spots, but it is elegant. Black also let it naturally and television, sound box, smart TV box is classified as a "black" category, and all-match furniture, both in the living room, desk or bedside are appropriate.
The operation is very simple: connect it to the power, open the Echo application in the cell phone, connect the WiFi sent by Echo, and find the SSID of home WiFi and enter the password in the application. Echo automatically connects to WiFi and starts working.
Unlike any other voice assistant, it can carry on continuous conversation. Every conversation with Echo must first call the name of its virtual character Alexa (or set it to Amazon) to wake it up, after it has a circle of blue lights on its top. It seems to be a bit of a trouble, but it's not true - think about your dialogue with a voice assistant. How many scenes are you need to talk to?
The advantage of this setting is that it will not be awakened by your conversation with other people (unless you mention Alaxa), and you can also wake it up without any need to start. Siri on iPhone also has a similar "Hey Siri" function, but it can only be used when connecting the power supply. As for Siri on Apple Watch, I believe that experienced people know how slow it is.
Super strong hearing "second kill" Siri, Google Now
Compared to Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, the biggest advantage of Echo's voice aides in the collection is its super strong hearing. At the top of it, there are seven circular microphones that can accurately capture sound from all directions. I put it in my bedroom, standing in the two walls (but looking at the door) in the living room, speaking with a normal voice, it can also hear and answer my questions quickly. When I play video or songs with my cell phone, I will talk with it at the same time, and it will not be disturbed by noise.
Alexa, what's the weather in the city of XX today?
Alexa, set the alarm clock in the (next) XX XX.
Alexa, what time is it now?
The first conversation happened more before I went to work, and Echo would tell me the weather and temperature at that time and when I was in Tianshan.
The second sentence is usually what I said before I went to bed. Since I had Echo, I didn't use the alarm clock on iPhone again.
The third sentence is I at home at any time may ask the question, but the most common scenario is the alarm clock to wake up before I woke up the morning, lying in bed and asked this question, and then went to sleep; while iPhone and Apple Watch was also on the bed in my charge, but in the state of sleep. Let me choose a word or turn over raising his hand, I will not hesitate to choose the former. Even in peacetime, as long as I am not using computers or playing cell phones, I will most probably know time through Echo, because speaking a sentence is much easier than finding a cell phone, taking it up and lighting it up.
Although the Echo function is very limited, far from intelligent, but its superior speech recognition ability let me use it already has the function to achieve without the use of hand (handsfree), which also makes it become second only to Yu Zhineng and Apple Watch mobile phone products using frequency smart devices I've used so far in.
Voice wake-up, without hands-on
Echo is the most expected smart hardware I've been looking forward to this year. I got an order immediately after receiving an Amazon's reservation at the beginning of the year. Is the first of nearly five months, but the final delivery time earlier than expected, I finally got Echo in early June, and it did not let me down.
The first Echo was a lot bigger than I thought it was. The black cylinder is designed without too many bright spots, but it is elegant. Black also let it naturally and television, sound box, smart TV box is classified as a "black" category, and all-match furniture, both in the living room, desk or bedside are appropriate.
The operation is very simple: connect it to the power, open the Echo application in the cell phone, connect the WiFi sent by Echo, and find the SSID of home WiFi and enter the password in the application. Echo automatically connects to WiFi and starts working.
Unlike any other voice assistant, it can carry on continuous conversation. Every conversation with Echo must first call the name of its virtual character Alexa (or set it to Amazon) to wake it up, after it has a circle of blue lights on its top. It seems to be a bit of a trouble, but it's not true - think about your dialogue with a voice assistant. How many scenes are you need to talk to?
The advantage of this setting is that it will not be awakened by your conversation with other people (unless you mention Alaxa), and you can also wake it up without any need to start. Siri on iPhone also has a similar "Hey Siri" function, but it can only be used when connecting the power supply. As for Siri on Apple Watch, I believe that experienced people know how slow it is.
Super strong hearing "second kill" Siri, Google Now
Compared to Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, the biggest advantage of Echo's voice aides in the collection is its super strong hearing. At the top of it, there are seven circular microphones that can accurately capture sound from all directions. I put it in my bedroom, standing in the two walls (but looking at the door) in the living room, speaking with a normal voice, it can also hear and answer my questions quickly. When I play video or songs with my cell phone, I will talk with it at the same time, and it will not be disturbed by noise.
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