Sentences with phrase «as wake word»

If you have an Echo and you don't like the name Alexa, or you have someone else in the house with that name, you can choose Amazon or Echo as the wake word.

Amazon never explained why it chose Alexa as the wake word for the Echo despite already owning a product by the same name.

My colleague Owen Williams also notes that Alexa is a more relatable name than Echo, and that most people likely prefer her name as the wake word than the icy alternative of «Hey, Amazon.»

If you don't want to use «Alexa» as the wake word for your Echo, you can change it to either Amazon, Echo, or Computer.

By default, the Echo uses «Alexa» as the wake word, meaning that you have to say that word in order to activate the Echo's microphone in order to speak a command.

That means Mycroft provides core software technology such as wake word recognition and natural language processing.

They've recently introduced «Computer» as a wake word in a nod to Star Trek, which seems infinitely inconvenient.)

If you have more than one Echo or Echo Dot, repeat these steps for each device as wake words are set on an individual basis.

Not exact matches

Some people have wondered whether virtual assistants such as Amazon Alexa collect audio of any conversation or sound that plays within users» homes, but their makers explain that the devices don't collect data until their users say a «wake word» (i.e., «Alexa!»).

I'm truly honored to be a part of a company that feels like a family; a place where I refer to my peers as friends first, coworkers second; a place that I can wake up every morning and get excited about going to; a workplace environment that empowers its occupants to produce their absolute best work; and a place that is full of so much love, care, dedication, and selflessness that the only appropriate word that I can think of to describe it would have to be «magical».

Offering your opinion as true reality should be a wake up call to anyone who reads your words.

He is one of the messengers that God always provides to wake us up and help prepare the way His words may bring to mind people in our own lives who have been such faithful harbingers of truth, those who have smoothed the way for us, leveling the rough places through which we must walk, even as they challenge us to seek to be the people God calls us to be.

In other words, the universe's creative advance leaves in its wake, as it were, an ever - growing multiplicity of attained actualities.

The Latin word resurrectio appears to have been created for Christian use, and while the Greek equivalent anastasis is certainly pre-Christian, it does not seem to have been widely used until Christian times, some scholars thinking that, when Paul referred to it at Athens, his hearers mistook it for the name of a goddess.26 The idea of resurrection first came to expression in the form of a narrative, and until the advent of the above technical terms, words of very general usage, such as «raise», «wake up», «stand up», etc., served the purpose of relating it.

The first sign of his prophetic vocation, according to his own words, was the discovery that everything which he dreamed happened in his waking hours precisely as he had foreseen it.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

By some strange coincidence, those exact words also appear in Pliny's Naturalis Historia as a description of the bonnacon, a mythical creature from Macedonia that — yes, you did read that last bit correctly — runs away from any and all confrontation, leaving a fountain of flaming shit in its wake.

3) PIRES FOR GODS SAKE WAKE UP TO WHAT IS HAPPENING.They LAUGH at US.They LAUGH at WENGER.They chant this at AWAY GAMES.They even chant this at THE EMIRATES.Dont Just take my word for this as you can have this confirmed by anybody on this site.The song is so popular it is likely to be the UK entry into the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST.Its embarrassing to listen to but how can we argue Wenger has NOT been successfully for 2 decades.He was successful foSEVEN SEASONS.Look at the stats.Please do not quote FA CUPS or COMMUNITY SHIELDS.The BIG Competitions are the PREMIERE LEAGUE and the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.These are what we are measured on.Nothing else.

It started with a long walks through the Auckland CBD and involved many highlights, such as `' sharing a cup of chamomile tea on a park bench, waking early in the morning to get coffee, watching The Late Night Breakfast Show and laughing until it hurt, sitting for four hours looking over the Auckland Harbour saying barely a word.»

Can «woke» white men writing characters who say the N word as a way to prove they are edgy be over, it is 20 god damn 18 already

Some wag commented on Twitter during the festival that when a film is described as «soporific,» it means that the critic fell asleep during the screening, but here, we'd mean the word as a compliment; Tsai conjures up a surreal tone closest to the moments after waking where you try and work out if your dreams were real or not, and it's a feeling that lingers long after the credits roll.

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

Truth is, the man still has his wits about him, or at least enough so to provide his granddaughter with decisive words of wisdom near the film's climax — a dour speech about real violence and death being anesthetized by the media that's hard not to interpret as Haneke's own wake - up call to the young and naïve.

Immaculate is the word for the 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer of Gone in Sixty Seconds proper, and the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is as aggro as you'd expect for a picture that leaves a residue of testosterone in its wake.

Approaching Final Destination in the wake of its three sequels is certainly an interesting proposition, as it's obvious virtually from the word go that the film is a much different animal than its followups - as director James Wong (along with cowriters Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick) has infused the movie with a far more deliberate and story - oriented vibe than fans have come to expect.

The word «woke» immediately came to mind, as it's become so popular lately, and I was tempted to even use it with my students in that context.

B. Wake up, write for 15 - 30 minutes (let's say 250 - 750 words), go to work, come home, spend time with family or friends, exercise for 30 minutes, write or market for another 15 - 30 minutes (same word count as before, so between 500-1500 per day) and then the night reading a book watching your favorite TV show, etc..

Your positive messages and kind words are keeping us uplifted as we wade through the muck left in Irma's wake.

The house is really luxury as the word sounds, but the morning view every day when we wake up is beautiful

Despite the fact that Link has spent the entire game collecting enough instruments to wake this thing up, the colourful creature's sombre words offer no real satisfaction or closure — instead, he tells the boy in green that the entire island he has just been exploring, as well as every charming character living on it, has been but a dream.

I Just Want to Do Whatever I Feel like Doing; GRAYSON PERRY ON HIS CROSS-DRESS HAPPINESS; EXCLUSIVE The Mirror (London, England); October 22, 2014; Wynne - Jones, Ros; 700 + words... ROS WYNNE - JONES When artist Grayson Perry was made a Commander of the British... going to compromise my identity as Britain's pre-eminent transvestite... woke up to the eccentricity of Grayson Perry.

If worded correctly, this might just help us wake up more people and cause more of those involved such as the pilots flying these planes to come forth.

More generally, as Michael O'Hear and Carissa Hessick have rightly stressed in posts at SCOTUSblog, there is plenty of dicta in Gall and Kimbrough to allow, in Hessick's words, «those appellate courts that have clung to the Guidelines in the wake of the Court's decision in Booker to continue to do so.»

For those using the «Hi Bixby» wake word, you'll be able to talk to your device using natural language as you might do with Google Assistant.

Most smart speakers today only send data to the cloud after the «wake word» such as «Alexa» or «Cortana» is recognized.

If your product is Far - Field / Hand - free enabled and uses a wake word to initiate interactions with Alexa, testing will be scheduled and performed at the same time as all other testing.

Owners of multiple Alexa devices, such as myself, have run into problems as a result of the limited number of wake words.

It doesn't stream anything without the wake word and it has a physical mute button that electrically disconnects the microphone but, as with all groundbreaking technology, there is no doubt we are entering new territory here.

One of the many great things about smart speakers and virtual assistants is their ability to only respond to certain wake words, which allows the user to feel as if there's really a sentient being inside the house that listens to commands at all times.

Google Now responds to the wake words, «OK, Google» but also doesn't have nearly as many options for smart - home voice control as either Siri or Alexa at the moment — just Nest and Wink for now (the latter pointed out by CNET reader samuhlarik10).

For a family, this HomePod is the best friend as it can control all HomeKit devices by a wake word «OK, Bono».

Sonos One doesn't include today some Alexa features such as calling and messaging, the ability to change the wake word, and it doesn't have an indicator light for notifications.

We changed the wake word on our upstairs device to «Echo» and left the wake word on our downstairs unit as «Alexa».

Keep in mind, this is only a recommendation, alternative implementations are allowed as long as they provide the requisite functionality to identify 500 milliseconds of pre-roll, the wake word start and stop indices, and stream the user's request in it's entirety.

Voice - initiated products start to stream user speech to AVS when a wake word, such as «Alexa», is detected by the wake word engine; the stream is closed when the user stops speaking or user's intent has been identified and the service returns a StopCapture directive.

That includes the microphone array that helps Echo pick up speech even in a fairly noisy room, as well as Amazon's own proprietary software for recognizing wake words, reducing background noise and cancelling out echoes in large open rooms.

As a reminder, you may not want to set your Amazon wake word to something you say regularly around the house — if your Echo happens to live in a computer repair shop, maybe stick with «Alexa» or «Echo».

By default, the wake word is «Alexa,» with «Amazon» and «Echo» as alternatives.

It will be interesting to see how this stands up to other wake - word engines such as Snowboy which have the capability of custom wake word support.

Its seven microphones are always on and listening, but are only supposed to record after those mics pick up a Wake word such as «Alexa» or «Amazon.»