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Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British

Alexa-derived chatbot tech allegedly understands 'the British accent', but fails to recognise that there are many

17 Sep 2020

Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store

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17 Aug 2020

AI assistants work perfectly in the UK – unless you're from Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Belfast...

Folk outside London cry: Why doesn't Alexa understand me?

30 Jul 2020

Amazon drops battery-powered Echo speaker so you can play Despacito on the go

Only in India for the time being

04 Dec 2019

Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

Now, how about those Surface Book 2s?

16 Jul 2019

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

It records everything, even when someone didn't want to be overheard? And it's in your house? Was zum Teufel!

16 Jul 2019

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

10 Jul 2019

Alexa, are you profiting from the illegal storage and analysis of kids' voice commands?

I'm sorry, I won't comment on ongoing litigation: Two privacy lawsuits filed against Amazon

12 Jun 2019

Alexa Conversations: Amazon's AI assistant is about to get a whole lot more like Clippy

re:MARS Hi! It looks like you're planning a night out! Would you like a taxi with that?

06 Jun 2019

Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech

Speaker identification and more listening in: welcome to the future of voice assistants

05 Jun 2019

As Alexa's secret human army is revealed, we ask: Who else has been listening in on you?

The Lives of Others: Siri, Google and Cortana edition

11 Apr 2019

Solder and Lego required: The Register builds glorious Project Alias gizmo to deafen Alexa

Second time lucky?

18 Feb 2019

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

Column It's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin

17 Jan 2019

2018 ain't done yet... Amazon sent Alexa recordings of man and girlfriend to stranger

Just human error, internet giant shrugs after GDPR request went wrong. No sh!t, Sherlock

20 Dec 2018

Alexa, cough up those always-on Echo audio recordings, says double-murder trial judge

Amazon gizmo may be key witness in slaying

14 Nov 2018

Amazon is at this point a money-printing cloud machine with a grocery store in the parking lot

$3bn-a-quarter in profit and most of coming in from AWS

26 Oct 2018

Stealthy UK startup drops veil on next frontier of speech wizardry

The power's in the phone, not the cloud

22 Oct 2018

Hey you know what the smart-home world really needs right now? Yup, Google screaming in

Analysis New Hub device continues to pull AI, Nest, YouTube closer together

09 Oct 2018

Articles about Alexa

Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British

Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store

AI assistants work perfectly in the UK – unless you're from Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Belfast...

Amazon drops battery-powered Echo speaker so you can play Despacito on the go

Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

Alexa, are you profiting from the illegal storage and analysis of kids' voice commands?

Alexa Conversations: Amazon's AI assistant is about to get a whole lot more like Clippy

Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech

As Alexa's secret human army is revealed, we ask: Who else has been listening in on you?

Solder and Lego required: The Register builds glorious Project Alias gizmo to deafen Alexa

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

2018 ain't done yet... Amazon sent Alexa recordings of man and girlfriend to stranger

Alexa, cough up those always-on Echo audio recordings, says double-murder trial judge

Amazon is at this point a money-printing cloud machine with a grocery store in the parking lot

Stealthy UK startup drops veil on next frontier of speech wizardry

Hey you know what the smart-home world really needs right now? Yup, Google screaming in

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