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Not a fan of Alexa at the moment, but I can totally picture it's going to be absolutely massive and everywhere once 5G network is launched and more IoT devices

Not a fan of Alexa at the moment, but I can totally picture it's going to be absolutely massive and everywhere once 5G network is launched and more IoT devices will flood the market. Amazon is pushing hard to make it more ubiquitous and it just seems inevitable. Might be a good time to learn some Alexa skills now.

dajohnson89 7y ago
I can see it now: job openings for Senior Alexa Engineer
- FigmentEngine 7y ago
  https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/802455/senior-software-engineer-alexa-ai https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/802455/senior-software-engin...
  - dajohnson89 7y ago
    joke's on me.
- jedberg 7y ago
  The most qualified applicant will have dual degrees in computer science and English
  - taneq 7y ago
    Soon, robopsychology!
sjg007 7y ago
Alexa needs voice personalization like Siri and a parental mode. My kids keep turning off my timers and lights.. it’d be nice for Alexa to have a mode where it won’t do that unless it’s my voice.
- vidarh 7y ago
  Biggest gripes for me is that it needs to work better across multiple devices. If I ask it to list my timers I want it to list my timers (so voice personalization) irrespective which room in the house I'm in. But currently timers and alarms are per Alexa device. Also needs to get better at identifying the closest device, and letting you turn off alarms etc. from any device - it's incredibly annoying to have an alarm go off downstairs when I'm upstairs and have to be close enough to the right device to turn it off. I get why to an extent - while solving the distribution might be simple, it's a much harder contextual problem to figure out what a request means across multiple devices. E.g if someone sets an alarm in one bedroom it probably shouldn't go off anywhere else, and if you ask to turn off an alarm in one bedroom it probably shouldn't cancel the one in the other. Voice personalization would at least make that less ambiguous, though they would sti need some careful thinking.

dajohnson89 7y ago

I can see it now: job openings for Senior Alexa Engineer

FigmentEngine 7y ago
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/802455/senior-software-engineer-alexa-ai https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/802455/senior-software-engin...
- dajohnson89 7y ago
  joke's on me.
jedberg 7y ago
The most qualified applicant will have dual degrees in computer science and English
- taneq 7y ago
  Soon, robopsychology!

sjg007 7y ago

Alexa needs voice personalization like Siri and a parental mode. My kids keep turning off my timers and lights.. it’d be nice for Alexa to have a mode where it won’t do that unless it’s my voice.

vidarh 7y ago
Biggest gripes for me is that it needs to work better across multiple devices. If I ask it to list my timers I want it to list my timers (so voice personalization) irrespective which room in the house I'm in. But currently timers and alarms are per Alexa device. Also needs to get better at identifying the closest device, and letting you turn off alarms etc. from any device - it's incredibly annoying to have an alarm go off downstairs when I'm upstairs and have to be close enough to the right device to turn it off. I get why to an extent - while solving the distribution might be simple, it's a much harder contextual problem to figure out what a request means across multiple devices. E.g if someone sets an alarm in one bedroom it probably shouldn't go off anywhere else, and if you ask to turn off an alarm in one bedroom it probably shouldn't cancel the one in the other. Voice personalization would at least make that less ambiguous, though they would sti need some careful thinking.