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So what is Alexa Skill's Set?
Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for you to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa.

What's the speciality for the Developer's kit?
Amazon  opened up its far-field technology to developers last month, through a seven-mic array that promises to bring the Echo’s excellent voice recognition tech, which works remarkably well across rooms and in loud environments. Conexant’s offers a similar effect, with four on-board mics, a design decision made to help cut down on manufacturing costs.

How it can beat the other competitors?
Conexant happily points to a projection by RBC Capital that puts the total Alexa device install base at 128 million by 2020 – and surely that won’t be all Echoes. Partnering with a company like Conexant, which has a direct in to supply chains will only serve to accelerate that adoption, giving Amazon an even stronger foothold in the smart home. Looks like Apple and Google have some catching up to do.

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Personal information are used to make product recommendations and generate marketing materials.

It is well founded because the user can delete their preferences or history through Alexa which will directly delete from Amazon's server too

Amazon Echo and the Alexa voice assistant have had widely publicised issues with privacy. Whether it is the amount of data they collect or the fact that they reportedly pay employees and, at times, external contractors from all over the world to listen to recordings to improve accuracy, the potential is there for sensitive personal information to be leaked through these devices.

But the risks extend not just to our relationship with Amazon. Major privacy concerns are starting to emerge in the way Alexa devices interact with other services – risking a dystopian spiral of increasing surveillance and control.

The setup of the Echo turns Amazon into an extra gateway that every online interaction has to pass through, collecting data on each one. Alexa knows what you are searching for, listening to or sending in your messages. Some smartphones do this already, particularly those made by Google and Apple who control the hardware, software and cloud services.

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-Echo plus allows you to connect many other home devices and appliances to Alexa’s voice control.

1. Speaker and smart display.

-Echo dot is an ideal choice if you're looking for basic Alexa functionality and ability to control your smart devices with your voice.
2. Lights
- you can easily ask your speaker to switch on/off your lamps with Alexa integration.
3.Smart plugs
-Alexa compatibility is especially nice because you can ask her to turn on your reading lamp without having to get up from your chair.
4.Thermostats
-The Ecobee4 comes with Alexa built into the unit for control and other Alexa-related capabilities, making it an ideal option if you don’t have an Alexa device, but you still want the voice assistant.
5.Smart lock
-Pairing with Alexa means you can check the status of the lock, lock it, or even unlock it with voice commands. Getting her to unlock your door requires a vocally recited pin, so you probably don’t want to shout at your speaker from outside your house.
6.Security camera
-One perk of the Echo Show or Echo Spot is that they can show you camera footage without you having to pull out your phone and open an app.
7.Appliances
-voice-activated vacuum, both the excellent iRobot Roomba s9+ and more affordable Shark IQ 101AE Robot will start cleaning upon your command, and then empty themselves after they finish cleaning

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AVS

Amazon Echo connected to Alexa which is a cloud-based voice service called Alexa Voice Service (AVS)

(AVS) process the response and identify the user’s intent

NLP

Alexa is built based on natural language processing (NLP), a procedure of converting speech into words, sounds, and ideas.

It’s a convergence of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics which handles interactions between machines and natural languages of humans in which computers are entailed to analyze, understand, alter, or generate natural language.

NLU

A subset of the wider world of NLP

Help in understanding the meaning of speech

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- echo is a device designed around your voice
- echo is connected to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service
-create shopping list, provide news, etc
- with its advanced audio design, echo fills any room with immersive sound
- echo also can tell a joke
-useful for keeping track of to-do lists and other info on your device
- echo is always learning new skills.

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overall:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/asr

yang ni maybe boleh guna untuk q5:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/best-alexa-enabled-devices/

ni untuk soalan 2: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-amazon-alexa-works-your-guide-to-natural-language-processing-ai-7506004709d3

boleh refer untuk soalan 4,

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/04/amazons-new-dev-kit-promises-to-bring-alexa-far-field-tech-to-more-third-party-devices/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andriacheng/2018/07/26/what-amazon-is-doing-to-keep-alexa-in-the-lead/

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/Tx205N9U1UD338H/Introducing-the-Alexa-Skills-Kit-Enabling-Developers-to-Create-Entirely-New-Voic

privacy concern q3 (apa yang put faham cam amazon echo ni dia record suara kita so cam takde privacy en and diorang save dalam server diorang, google & apple tak save pun dalam server)

https://theconversation.com/amazon-echos-privacy-issues-go-way-beyond-voice-recordings-130016

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/amazon-echo-and-alexa-privacy-issues-go-way-beyond-voice-recordings/

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Q1: The functionality of Amazon Echo (1st Generation)

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Q1: The functionality of Amazon Echo (1st Generation)

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Give information: When we asks general question such as recipes or suggestions for anything

Organize 'to-do-list' or shopping list

Teach something new: Train new accent

Ease disabled person such as blind people

Give traffic reports

Weather Forecast

Source of entertainment: Music, Jokes

High Quality Audio

Get Prime membership: hands-free shopping

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