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> I have an Alexa in my bathroom. It is convenient to use to listen to music and check the weather while I get ready.

Get ready for your mind to be blown, but I actually managed to do that as early as 1983 with a clock radio plugged into the wall. Plus it didn’t listen to my conversations or send analytics about me to a company either. I think this technology was around even earlier but not sure since I was a kid. We were truly ahead of times back then!




Same. These days, I just set my phone on the counter and let it play the news, or a good podcast.

All I could think of, given the part you quoted was the precommand recording.

[Bio sound] "Music please Alexa."

You know someone is checking those for research, improvement.

Maybe somewhere in the bowels, pun intended, of Amazon there is a literal squeak of the week leader board.




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