With the Robo app, the right blocks and a rainy afternoon, you could – according to the Kickstarter page – have a three-wheeled robot nosing around the room, obeying commands and announcing the weather forecast.
Alexa is always listening through a system of seven built-in microphones but waits for you to say the "wake word" to send it commands, like asking for the weather or which music to play, according to the company.
With the advances made with smartphone digital assistants like Google Now, Siri, and Cortana, consumers are quite comfortable with spoken commands -- asking about the weather or sending a quick text.
According to German magazine c*t, which was given access to the files by the German Amazon customer, Alexa also recorded general comments concerning day-to-day life and work as well as music and alarm commands and questions about the weather.
ChangeWeather commands: These will change the weather for a certain region.
The Google app works by voice command searches for things like the weather in San Francisco or asking it to time something cooking on the stove.
Yes, after pulling herself out of her 1950's rut as a swimsuit model to become everything from a doctor, lawyer, computer scientist, astronaut and even the president of the United States, Barbie has now become a 3D-animated hologram that can serve up the weather on command.
For example, iPhone commands such as "What is the weather going to be like?" will generate a response such as "The weather is to be cloudy and rainy and drop to 54 degrees today".
A further five sailors were saved by under the command of Kapitänleutnant Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat and the weather observation ship.
Galaxy Gear uses S-Voice, Samsung's version of Google Now and Siri, for voice commands, like making phone calls and checking the weather.
