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by adrianbg 8y ago
It should be working in the UK now.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
It should be working now.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Should be working now.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Only that that's all I've had time to do so far. What alternative did you have in mind?
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Thanks for trying it. I don't see any errors from today on my end. Would you mind emailing me at adrian@patter.io to debug?
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by adrianbg 8y ago
India, Canada, the UK, and other English-speaking countries are in Amazon's review process. Should be working in another day or two.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
I ranted about this in the unofficial Alexa Slack team and the people there gave some plausible (but unsatisfying) reasons why it works like that. I'm not a huge fan of Amazon though, so I'm happy to blame them. Essentially it boi
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Made a new version and submitted it for review. If all goes well, it should be working in a day or two. Let me know how it goes.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
I.... don't know. But I doubt it :)
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Oh man, def not intentional. I'm Canadian too.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Hmm sorry. Where abouts are you? I didn't intentionally put on any restrictions.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Google's speech recognition is supposed to be much better, though not sure if they'd allow "one intent to rule them all" like you want. For free-form speech recognition in Alexa, the best option I've seen mentioned
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by adrianbg 8y ago
I find Amazon's products often have bizarre constraints like that. They seem to do well anyway though :/ Thanks for your comments! I wonder if I can create some kind of personalized briefing based on which stories people seem inte
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by adrianbg 8y ago
My guess would be that they have separate speech recognition / synthesis models. Sorry, I should try and get this thing out to other countries too.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Yeah, I don't think it's intended to be interactive. More like a really quick curated news update.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
It's closed source. Sorry. I've thought about things like trying to crowdsource the summaries, since people sometimes write "tl;dr" comments on posts.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Sometimes I wish it didn't. They don't give you the original audio, any kind of confidence score, or even alternative hypotheses. It's really a pretty rigid platform. A lot of things that seem like they should be reasonable a
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Yeah.. turns out that's actually a friend of a friend. I'm curious to see what people prefer for obvious reasons :). The advantages of my approach are personalization, interactivity, and scalability beyond just HN. Theirs is proba
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Thanks!
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Alexa does most of the hard stuff: speech recognition / intent detection, and speech synthesis. My back end is a simple Python service on GCP that handles HTTP requests from Alexa. The same service also downloads the HN front page from
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Yeah, RSS feeds are definitely on my mind as well.
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by adrianbg 8y ago
SF
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by adrianbg 8y ago
Thanks! Right now I'm using this: https://rapidapi.com/textanalysis/api/Text%20Summarization but may switch to a more expensive one and may supplement with manual edits.
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Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles
111 points by adrianbg 8y ago|47 comments
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Ask HN: What's the best HN Alexa skill?
5 points by adrianbg 9y ago|1 comments
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by adrianbg 9y ago
Yes they are already penalized. I personally am kinda happy about this blacklisting. The startup doesn't need to file the H1B themselves. The employee can transfer it from another company.
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by adrianbg 9y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. I am an immigrant working at a startup and I know many others.
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by adrianbg 9y ago
That would penalize startups, giving only large companies access to the foreign labour pool. It's rare that a problem like this has a simple solution.
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by adrianbg 9y ago
I defer to your obvious familiarity with British TV.
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by adrianbg 9y ago
Yes, exactly. I do wonder whether a similarly good end-to-end system could be trained by constraining the alignments as I've seen done in some papers.

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