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Alexa Skills Projects

by Madhur Bhargava
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
250 pages
4h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Need for Voice-Based Personal Assistants

To understand the evolution of voice-based personal assistants, we will have to go back in time and see some of the important events that led to their advent. One of these many events was the evolution of computers. Although not directly related to the voice revolution, the evolution of computers played a key role in the evolution of voice-based personal assistants because it marked the invention of the internet, which is the backbone of most voice-based personal assistants. The computer revolution also introduced critical changes concerning hardware and integrated circuits, which we shall discuss next.

The computer revolution began in the 19th century when Charles Babbage invented the first analytical ...

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