Biweekly Internet of Things Topic Challenge #3

Question

After a quite nice reception of the idea to have topic challenges for our site we are about to start the second. It's the second one of the top-most voted challenge ideas. And it starts now and will also run for two weeks.

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Biweekly topic challenge #3, February 21^th - March 7^th

Build your own hardware to run Alexa Voice Service and The Alexa FAQ Amazon did not provide

(suggested by Bence Kaulics and Helmar)

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This topic doesn't seem to need an extra tag, but remember to tag every challenge question with relevant tags, such as alexa, hardware and sensors.

Let the challenge begin!

Answer 1

Questions Posted

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• Does Amazon provide any free wake word engines for use with the Alexa Voice Service?
• Keep Alexa from responding when I'm talking in my sleep
• IFTTT recipe on single Echo Dot

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- https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/357/is-the-amazon-echo-always-listening-and-sending-data-to-the-cloud

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• Is the Amazon Echo 'always listening' and sending data to the cloud?

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