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A Practical Experience on the Amazon Alexa Integration in Smart Offices [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Smart offices are dynamically evolving spaces meant to enhance employees’ efficiency, but also to create a healthy and proactive working environment.
Răzvan Bogdan +2 more
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Moodle LMS Integration with Amazon Alexa: A Practical Experience [PDF]
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2020 The frequency of interaction between teachers and students through Learning Management Systems (LMSs) is continuously rising. However, recent studies highlight the challenges presented in current LMSs to meet the specific needs of the student, regarding ...
Maria Consuelo Sáiz Manzanares +2 more
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A Survey on Amazon Alexa Attack Surfaces [PDF]
2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2021 Since being launched in 2014, Alexa, Amazon's versatile cloud-based voice service, is now active in over 100 million households worldwide. Alexa's user-friendly, personalized vocal experience offers customers a more natural way of interacting with cutting-edge technology by allowing the ability to directly dictate commands to the assistant.
Yanyan Li, Sara Kim, Eric Sy
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System for Monitoring and Controlling Industrial Lighting with Amazon Alexa
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2021 Intelligent devices, used along with sensors, are becoming more commonplace in industrial contexts. One such device, Amazon Echo (which runs Amazon Alexa), can be used to interact with other industrial systems via voice commands. Taking advantage of this, a skill to control the illumination system of a company has been developed, while also being able ...
Manuel Ignacio Ayala Chauvin +2 more
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Digital forensic approaches for Amazon Alexa ecosystem
Digital Investigation, 2017 Internet of Things devices such as the Amazon Echo are undoubtedly great sources of potential digital evidence due to their ubiquitous use and their always on mode of operation, constituting a human life black box. The Amazon Echo in particular plays a centric role for the cloud based intelligent virtual assistant Alexa developed by Amazon Lab126.
Jungheum Park +2 more
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Using Amazon Alexa APIs as a Source of Digital Evidence [PDF]
2020 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security), 2020 With the release of Amazon Alexa and the first Amazon Echo device, the company revolutionised the smart home. It allowed their users to communicate with, and control, their smart home ecosystem purely using voice commands. However, this also means that Amazon processes and stores a large amount of personal data about their users, as these devices are ...
Sean Mckeown
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Speech Rate Adjustments in Conversations With an Amazon Alexa Socialbot [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper investigates users’ speech rate adjustments during conversations with an Amazon Alexa socialbot in response to situational (in-lab vs. at-home) and communicative (ASR comprehension errors) factors.
Michelle Cohn +7 more
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Are you listening? – an observational wake word privacy study [PDF]
Organizational Cybersecurity Journal, 2022 Purpose – Digital voice assistants use wake word engines (WWEs) to monitor surrounding audio for detection of the voice assistant's name. There are two failed conditions for a WWE, false negative and false positive.
Marcia Combs +2 more
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SkillVet: Automated Traceability Analysis of Amazon Alexa Skills [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023 Third-party software, or skills, are essential components in Smart Personal Assistants (SPA). The number of skills has grown rapidly, dominated by a changing environment that has no clear business model. Skills can access personal information and this may pose a risk to users.
Jide S. Edu +3 more
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Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems
Computational Linguistics, 2022 As more users across the world are interacting with dialog agents in their daily life, there is a need for better speech understanding that calls for renewed attention to the dynamics between research in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural ...
Manaal Faruqui, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
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