The 5 Feats of the Amazon Echo - Voicebot.ai

It responded almost instantly -- a capability that to this day, 5 years and change on, I find miraculous. Before the Amazon Echo, my prior magical Voice First moment of bliss was the launch of Siri on October 4th, 2011, with the release of the 4S. Up to that point, the only way to use speech on your smartphone was through an app. The Siri app was such an app, and I had found it impressive in what it could do. But now, with Apple pulling the app (actually a small apportion of the app) into the iPhone -- a mainstream product that was going places -- well now, speech had finally arrived! Yes, speech had finally arrived, and it had arrived and was being welcomed in the house of the iPhone, where it was given a spacious room to lodge in, alongside the other rooms – the camera, the phone, the texting, etc.