{"id":14066,"date":"2016-04-04T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:02:11","slug":"how-amazon-created-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/how-amazon-created-echo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon Created Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-inside-story-of-how-amazon-created-echo-2016-4?op=1\">Eugene Kim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-inside-story-of-how-amazon-created-echo-2016-4?op=1\">\n<p>Echo has emerged as Amazon&rsquo;s sleeper hit, a hot-selling gadget that&rsquo;s being hailed as the standard-bearer for an entirely new computing paradigm in which Amazon suddenly has an edge on rivals such as Apple and Google.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The average latency of existing voice-recognition technology at the time was around 2.5 to three seconds, so the Echo team initially set the goal at two seconds, according to an early team member.<\/p>\n<p>But when the team presented its plan to Bezos, Amazon&rsquo;s CEO countered with a much more ambitious target.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The test involved a human &ldquo;wizard&rdquo; sitting in a separate room and responding in real-time to any voice query a human testing subject would make to the Echo, often without telling the tester in advance. For example, if the subject asked Echo, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the weather like in New York?&rdquo; the wizard in the other room would quickly type and send out an answer through Echo&rsquo;s voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Kim: Echo has emerged as Amazon&rsquo;s sleeper hit, a hot-selling gadget that&rsquo;s being hailed as the standard-bearer for an entirely new computing paradigm in which Amazon suddenly has an edge on rivals such as Apple and Google. [&#8230;] The average latency of existing voice-recognition technology at the time was around 2.5 to three seconds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,1360,601],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-echo","tag-jeff-bezos"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}