Amazon touts Echo voice-recog tech to world's gizmo makers

In an effort to cement its position in the voice recognition market, Amazon has opened up its Alexa technology to third parties. The e-retailer is offering its seven-microphone array and voice processing tech to hardware makers who want to include voice activation in their products, but don't want to spend the enormous time …

[Anonymous Coward]

Who would win in a fight between Alexa, Siri, Bixby, Cortuna, and a dead crab?

"tell it who you are, what your product plans are, and what chipset and programming languages you will use."

Oh, yes, hello, I am Dave "Anonymouse" Null and I am planning to insert a device into a life-size My Little Pony replica, for, um, research porpoises.

"Did you just say porpoises?"

No, oh, excuse me, I meant to say purposes.

"Continue."

Great. I'll be using the world famous 4K4 embedded microwhatits. Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

And I'll be programming it with the Whitespace language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

"Okay, we'll get back to you."

Hey, that's not a no! :)

"Well, no."

Okay. Shit.

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Who would win in a fight between Alexa, Siri, Bixby, Cortuna, and a dead crab?

"Who would win in a fight between Alexa, Siri, Bixby, Cortuna, and a dead crab? "

I don't know but AFAICS there's only one that would go well in a salad.

[LionelHutz]

This is in line with American federal law and is also excellent policy.

[Anonymous Coward]

no children allowed ...

... why, exactly ? and why the re-definition of child as < 13 yo ?

[Swarthy]

Re: no children allowed ...

reference the comment by LionelHutz directly above:

This is in line with American federal law

[Knewbie]

Re: no children allowed ...

cannot be legally deemed responsible for a purchase.

but once you're 13 you can be considered as acceptable as an adult inmate in Murican's prisons, so ordering a gross of condoms (12*12) is ok...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: no children allowed ...

@Knewbie - OK, thanks for the explanation :)