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My FireTV is also upgraded to Alexa silently recently and it's fun to play with. Is it possible for me to upload my own content, say an audio book, some music

by ausjke 11y ago

My FireTV is also upgraded to Alexa silently recently and it's fun to play with. Is it possible for me to upload my own content, say an audio book, some music I own etc so I can use Alexa as a voice command to fetch my own data too? be it on the cloud or my local NAS/DLNA box.

ausjke 11y ago
The short answer is "NO": https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5090 https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threa... Before it supports those features Alexa is more of a toy, I played with it for a few minutes then never used it again.
rpgmaker 11y ago
My dream is to have some kind of android TV box that performs this.
- ausjke 11y ago
  For voice activated solutions the hard part is the front end, i.e. voice recognition, which is what Alexa is strong at. Once this is covered, it's relatively easy to cover the rest. Really the core competency of Alexa is its excellent voice recognition performance, which is still hard to find elsewhere these days.
  - jannotti 11y ago
    I'd love to see a nicely curated "voice recognition benchmark" to assess claims like this. Do you know of one?
  - ausjke 11y ago
    https://www.quora.com/Speech-Recognition/Which-is-the-best-open-source-ASR-for-non-commercial-usage-Is-HTK-still-be-best-given-its-long-history-and-rich-documents https://www.quora.com/Speech-Recognition/Which-is-the-best-o... There are a few open source alternative, Kaldi is new to me
    - dharma1 11y ago
      This one looks promising too, although very early days. https://github.com/srvk/eesen https://github.com/srvk/eesen I think we'll see something state of the art (that runs on mobile devices pretty soon in the open source world. You also need a good microphone setup to get good quality speech in. Both Echo and Dot have a 7 mic array with beamforming, which helps a lot with far field speech recognition.
- eclipxe 11y ago
  FireTV
Ozyman 11y ago
You can upload your own music into the amazon music library, and then play it via the echo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201379280 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... I assume an audio book could be uploaded as music, but I'm not sure if you can flag it as a book.

by ausjke 11y ago

ausjke 11y ago

The short answer is "NO": https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5090 https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threa... Before it supports those features Alexa is more of a toy, I played with it for a few minutes then never used it again.

rpgmaker 11y ago

My dream is to have some kind of android TV box that performs this.

ausjke 11y ago
For voice activated solutions the hard part is the front end, i.e. voice recognition, which is what Alexa is strong at. Once this is covered, it's relatively easy to cover the rest. Really the core competency of Alexa is its excellent voice recognition performance, which is still hard to find elsewhere these days.
- jannotti 11y ago
  I'd love to see a nicely curated "voice recognition benchmark" to assess claims like this. Do you know of one?
- ausjke 11y ago
  https://www.quora.com/Speech-Recognition/Which-is-the-best-open-source-ASR-for-non-commercial-usage-Is-HTK-still-be-best-given-its-long-history-and-rich-documents https://www.quora.com/Speech-Recognition/Which-is-the-best-o... There are a few open source alternative, Kaldi is new to me
  - dharma1 11y ago
    This one looks promising too, although very early days. https://github.com/srvk/eesen https://github.com/srvk/eesen I think we'll see something state of the art (that runs on mobile devices pretty soon in the open source world. You also need a good microphone setup to get good quality speech in. Both Echo and Dot have a 7 mic array with beamforming, which helps a lot with far field speech recognition.
eclipxe 11y ago
FireTV

Ozyman 11y ago

You can upload your own music into the amazon music library, and then play it via the echo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201379280 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... I assume an audio book could be uploaded as music, but I'm not sure if you can flag it as a book.