Amazon Part 2: The Obsessive Secrecy Around Alexa
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How to Solve the Farfield Speech Problem
Alexa, Amazon's voice-recognition system, was developed in the 1990s. The company wanted to create a machine that could respond to any question. Early prototypes worked so badly that even amazon employees didn't really want to test them. Alexa team just didn't have the data to get the a i smart. And then they struck upon an idea called project amtete.
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