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Does anyone notice that Alexa will sometimes say "playing music" and then doesn't play anything? Then you request a second time, and it does it then?
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So I got a new phone after my old one got destroyed, and after signing in to the Alexa app, all I get is a blank white screen?
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Apr 13, 2018 10:12
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For my birthday my wife got me a device that gives me Alexa in my car. It's pretty handy but doesn't do everything a home one does. Also, it's pretty fun to gently caress with my wife by turning off the lights while I'm in traffic.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:36
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Please tell me more about this device.
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Apr 14, 2018 01:58
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Anyone ever asked Alexa “ How do you say cupcake in German?”
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Apr 14, 2018 07:13
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Poetic Justice posted:Anyone ever asked Alexa “ How do you say cupcake in German?” Hahaha I just did
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Apr 14, 2018 12:35
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Subjunctive posted:Please tell me more about this device. http://a.co/aHLLt7V
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Apr 14, 2018 16:55
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Cool, thanks!
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Apr 14, 2018 17:22
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How's the recognition/false positive rate? I'd have to think that's not using purely local logic to hear the wake word but instead is using Amazon's cloud wake word recognition offering, and I've not heard great things about other devices that use it like the ecobee 4.
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Apr 14, 2018 17:41
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Don’t all the Amazon devices use the cloud as well now, for false positive elimination?
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Apr 14, 2018 18:53
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fordan posted:How's the recognition/false positive rate? I'd have to think that's not using purely local logic to hear the wake word but instead is using Amazon's cloud wake word recognition offering, and I've not heard great things about other devices that use it like the ecobee 4. I've only had it for like a week but it hasn't hosed up yet. There is a slight delay when waking but not that bad. The only real issue is that some skills don't work yet. Most of it does, kinda random.
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Apr 14, 2018 19:43
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Anyone know if I can use the Echo Connect in Canada?
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Apr 19, 2018 00:42
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Subjunctive posted:Don’t all the Amazon devices use the cloud as well now, for false positive elimination? I think so; when you see the Echo light up and then go dark without responding that's what's happening (assuming it isn't that another Echo heard you better). The Echo local hardware thinks it heard the wake word, sends the audio to the cloud (thus turning on the light since it lights up whenever it's sending audio to the cloud), gets told by the smarter algorithms in the cloud that it wasn't the wake word and shuts back down. The usually cheaper 3rd party stuff has more limited local processing and so lights up due to sending to the cloud more often.
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Apr 19, 2018 01:43
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I just love when it erroneously activates, yelling 'alexa, shut up' instantly makes it stop talking and shut off.
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Apr 19, 2018 03:27
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Me, because I'm a nerd: "Alexa, tea, Earl Grey, hot." Alexa: "The replicators on this vessel are not yet functional." 
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Apr 19, 2018 04:11
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A real nerd would change the wake word to “Computer”.
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Apr 19, 2018 04:50
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I noticed that I could no longer play any music I wanted on my living room Echo (I bought it like 4 weeks ago) but I could on my Echo dot (got it about 5 weeks ago, first purchase) and looked into Amazon Music Unlimited. Turns out I had an Echo sub for $3.99/month for one device and couldn't figure out how to make my living room Echo the default so I upgraded to the individual plan. Well that fixed it but now I have existential angst that I just gave up an additional $4/month to Jeff Bezos buying Comcast or something. Did I gently caress up?
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Apr 19, 2018 23:27
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:A real nerd would change the wake word to “Computer”. Can you?
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Apr 20, 2018 00:08
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:A real nerd would change the wake word to “Computer”. A real nerd gets to work from home and finds they say computer far more often than they thought
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Apr 20, 2018 00:23
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Subjunctive posted:Can you?
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Apr 20, 2018 05:51
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Honestly, "Amazon" is the worst choice of the four.
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Apr 20, 2018 06:05
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Yeah they added that early last year. You can set it to Alexa, Amazon, Echo, or Computer. No Satan, no sale. 
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Apr 20, 2018 07:17
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:A real nerd would change the wake word to “Computer”.  I have failed.
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Apr 27, 2018 00:06
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Amazon announced today that they are raising Prime’s yearly subscription price to $119 a year.
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Apr 27, 2018 00:58
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Amazon announced today that they are raising Prime’s yearly subscription price to $119 a year. gently caress. Between Amazon Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited I'm giving them over $200 a year now. I miss when we could split one up with 4 other goons.
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Apr 27, 2018 14:16
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I'll buy a share of their stock if they give me Prime for free as long as I'm a shareholder Surprised they haven't done that already
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Apr 27, 2018 16:59
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That would be so annoying to administer. I don’t even want to think about it.
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Apr 27, 2018 17:09
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Subjunctive posted:That would be so annoying to administer. I don’t even want to think about it. Send shareholders a $120 gift certificate in December every year Although I wonder how many would buy a share in October, get the free Prime certificate in December, and then sell the share in January First world problems!
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Apr 27, 2018 17:35
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I don’t think public companies generally have contact information for individual shareholders, but I haven’t really looked into it. I guess they have something in the case of dividends, but then they could just issue a dividend. Apparently the voice rec stuff is getting updated to work better with children, including higher frequency handling and (no joke) supporting “Awexa”.
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Apr 27, 2018 17:40
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Subjunctive posted:I don’t think public companies generally have contact information for individual shareholders, but I haven’t really looked into it. I guess they have something in the case of dividends, but then they could just issue a dividend. McDonald's has sent their shareholders free gift certificates/food coupons for years - I think they send them with their annual report
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Apr 27, 2018 17:41
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Well then!
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Apr 27, 2018 17:42
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https://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/050201.aspquote:Other companies have been known to give their shareholders small tokens of their appreciation along with their annual reports. For example, AT&T has given shareholders a 10-minute phone card with its annual report, McDonald’s included a voucher for free fries and Starbucks ponied up a free cup of coffee. None of those are exactly worth $120, but still
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Apr 27, 2018 17:45
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Subjunctive posted:Apparently the voice rec stuff is getting updated to work better with children, including higher frequency handling and (no joke) supporting “Awexa”. Huh that's cool. My son constantly has been trying to get her to work consistently and can't but just last night she started responding to “Awexa, blah blah blah" pretty well. I guess they're already doing it?
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Apr 27, 2018 17:51
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Just picked up an echo dot 2nd gen at a local used electronics retailer for $30. So far this thing has been a blast to play with, but I was wondering if you guys new of any lesser known skills I should be using for this thing? I don't have anything in my home to automate yet, but I was trying to figure out a way to make a Vice flash briefing like the dailymail one, or if one already exists. Not sure what else this thing can do that would be useful and or fun. Any tips?
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May 16, 2018 16:55
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Yay, named timers work for me (for Canada?) now!
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May 16, 2018 17:03
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Subjunctive posted:Yay, named timers work for me (for Canada?) now! Always worked for me up here in Canada
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May 20, 2018 22:12
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Heners_UK posted:Always worked for me up here in Canada Well aren't you fancy.
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May 20, 2018 22:19
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I know another goon has bought this and said how good it is so you might be interested. http://twitter.com/amazonecho/status/999354464938143763
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May 23, 2018 20:59
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I know another goon has bought this and said how good it is so you might be interested. The more I've gotten used to both it and the home unit, it's just ok. It's super delayed sometimes like when telling her to change music tracks. All depends on your cell phone connection and Sprint sucks so YMMV
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I’m not sure it would mechanically fit into my car, but I’ll admit that I’m curious.
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