In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he "absolutely" believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

  • OrangeCorvus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Good luck, I guess? Got the first Google home, at first it was great, I was asking it tons of questions. Then the questions stopped, used it for turning on the lights and other automations. Then I installed Home Assistant and the only command Google Home got was to set a timer to know when to pull things out of the oven. Eventually I stopped doing that.

    At the moment all Google/Nest Homes have their mic cut off, I only use them to stream music in my house from my NAS via Plex. So yeah…

    • B1ackmathEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I still use mine for voice commands with home assistant. Works great.

    • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      All mine to is turn lights on and off… very occasionally they might be used to find a phone, or set a reminder, but I wouldn’t miss it if that went.

      I wondered if I was unusual in not using the voice features much, but according to this thread it seems I’m not.