Podcast #892: Is Amazon Listening to You?

Today we are on travel but we pre-recorded a short conversation about an article over at Bloomberg that discusses Amazon employees listening to recordings of echo conversations. The conversations are then compared to what the echo thought was said. All in an effort to increase accuracy of the echo's voice recognition software.  Amazon Workers are Listening to What You Tell Alexa A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.