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Bosch Game for Alexa

Amazon Alexa BOSCH Game?!

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Think you have what it takes to step into the shoes of an LAPD detective?
Join Harry Bosch and members of the cast of Bosch, Season 3 in an interactive mystery. A young woman has disappeared and Bosch has given you one day to find her. Avoid false leads and missteps by making the right “detective’s choice” at each fork in the road.

Featuring Titus Welliver, Analeis Lorig, Christian Gehring, and Erich Anderson.

Now get out there and knock on doors…

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Sonos Play 5

Episode 227 Sonos Play 5

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Spotify Hardware?

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Spotify, the world’s most popular music streaming device may be jumping into the world of hardware. According to job postings, reveal a handful of openings that make hint towards designing and selling hardware. Stating that the new employee would

“deliver hardware directly from Spotify to existing and new customers……a category defining product akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles.”

There are a host of other job listings that hint towards new hardware, most notably  ‘Voice’ and ‘Language’ team listings but within those listings they aren’t exclusive to working with external companies like Amazon/Google, assuming to make Spotify work better on Alexa/Google Home, but to working in house.

What can Spotify be working on?

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Episode 211 ADT MAIA / Amazon Fire Stick w/Alexa

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Amazon Fire Stick w/Alexa

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  • The next generation of our bestselling Fire TV Stick. The most powerful streaming media stick, with the fastest Wi-Fi and most accurate voice search-now including the Alexa Voice Remote.
  • Over 7,000 apps, games and Alexa skills, including Amazon Video, BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, Netflix, YouTube, and more.
  • Launch apps and control content with the included Alexa Voice Remote. Simply say, “Launch Netflix” or “Skip ahead 5 minutes” and Alexa responds. Plus, play music, search for local restaurants and more. Just ask.
  • 8 GB of storage and 1 GB of memory for apps and games, a quad-core processor, plus 802.11ac Wi-Fi for fast streaming and smooth performance.
  • Easily find what you want to watch with search results from Netflix, Amazon Video, Prime Video, and other third-party apps.
  • Amazon Prime members get unlimited access to Prime Video, featuring thousands of movies and TV episodes, including The Grand Tour, at no additional cost. Plus, two million songs with Prime Music.
  • Pick up where you left off. Bring hit shows and movies with you when you travel. Plug your Fire TV Stick into a TV’s HDMI port, connect to Wi-Fi and continue watching.
  • Play current favourites or quickly discover what to watch next directly from the Home screen.

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Episode 114 TERMINATOR’S BACK (FUNK)

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Amazon Echo

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We have recently been sent the Amazon Echo and we love it! If you don’t know Amazon Echo is a home automation device that sits in your room and is controlled via your voice only. There is no screen and it includes only a 360 degree omni directional speaker with  far-field voice recognition technology built in.  Far field Voice Recognition technology is basically a really cool piece of tech that allows Alexa (the internal voice in the echo) to hear you from a far and in noisy environments or when you are playing music. The Echo is controlled entirely with your voice and is activated by simply saying “Alexa”

Alexa can do a range of things including:

  • Plays all your music from Amazon Music, Spotify and TuneIn Radio.
  • Echo has Bluetooth built in so you can stream music from iTunes/Apple Music or off of a bluetooth enabled device.
  • Can answer questions, reads you audiobooks, reports news, traffic and weather & more using Alexa Voice Service
  • Controls lights, switches, thermostats and more with compatible devices such as Philips Hue, Hive and Nest products.
  • Alexa updates through the cloud automatically and is continually learning, adding new features and skills. 
  • Skills such as ordering take away from Just Eat or requesting a ride from Uber—simply discover and enable the skills you want to use in the Alexa App.
  • The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary and personal preferences.
  • If you are an Amazon Prime member you can also ask Alexa to purchase and order things for you, that includes things you have already bought before and many Prime products that are available on Amazon. (this can be password protected to avoid any buying mistakes)

To listen to the guys chatting about the Amazon Echo please click here!