Tag: Natural Language Interface

  • Alexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised

    Alexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised

    Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa went down on Friday while speaking the wrong error messages to customers.  During a ½ hour span Friday morning, I heard the following from Alexa on my Echo device, Amazon Fire Tablet and Fire TV stick:  “I’m having trouble understanding right now… try again later.” “Your echo device lost its WiFi…

  • The Consumer Experience Show #CES2018

    The Consumer Experience Show #CES2018

    For decades, the acronym CES stood for Consumer Electronics Show. A few years ago, in recognition of its expanded scope, the show organizers changed it from an acronym to simply a word, CES.  The meaning of CES continues to evolve and some of the descriptors that might be used to describe CES in 2018 include…