How do services like Amazon's Alexa understand your voice? Appliance Science looks at the role of machine learning and natural language processing in your voice-controlled future. Richard Baguley has ...

The lawsuits express the concern that Amazon can keep track of a youngster’s use of Alexa-enabled devices and from this it is possible to construct a “vast level of detail about the child’s life”.

In 2015 Amazon started selling the Amazon Echo, voiced by a personal assistant named Alexa. That year, 6050 baby girls were named Alexa. Fast forward and Philip Cohen, a sociology professor from the ...