"David" wrote in message
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On 27/11/2019 18:49, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:36:50 -0000, David
wrote:

On 27/11/2019 14:57, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:12:16 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote

Hang on, an Amazon Echo? Like the Alexa

Yep.

that spies on you?

Nope, just listens to you questions or commands
which have Alexa in front of them

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-g...eir-knowledge/


"Amazon employs thousands of people around the world to listen to and
transcribe recordings made by Alexa-enabled device users."

I've NOT signed that! ;-)

"The recordings are partially anonymized. They dont include a users
full name and address, but will be identifiable by their account number,
first name, and the serial number of the Alexa-enabled device theyre
using."

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazon-...ews-29850.html

So not anonymous then. Your speech can be traced to you by an Amazon
employee. They can have a jolly good laugh at you saying naughty things
to your wife in bed. They can then publish it somewhere and make an arse
of you. Would you buy a microphone, plug it into the internet, then let
anyone listen to you any time they want? Because that's what Alexa does.

My son bought me Google's equivalent. It's magic! :-)

Yeah, I have a couple of google home minis as well as the amazon echo dot.

Much louder audio with a very decent base considering its so small.

Better interpreter too, you can combine querys without including
the full detail in the second part. Say ask when Liz was born and
then just ask when she was married in the second one with just
referring to she in the second one.

The forecast is a bit quirky. For today it said that the max would
be in the mid 30s and you have to ask it again to get it to say
the max will be 33, It does it that way almost every day, you
have to ask it twice to get the exact max temp. Weird.

Mind you, it's kept in my kitchen!!!

Mine is in the bedroom and I have another in the kitchen.