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Jan 2017
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Why Amazon's Alexa is the belle of the t...

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Amazon's Alexa personal assistant is about to migrate to some 35 other tech products this year. This Echo and Dot speakers are sold out--why did Alexa seemingly win the voice computing war--so far? #TalkingTech listeners chime in to help answer the question. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p ... Show More
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