The old chestnut about Nato's purpose voiced by the first Nato secretary general, Lord Ismay – "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in" – looked hopelessly anachronistic.
Then, with all that, Amazon can slot those best cases into the Echo proper, and voila: Amazon has the best general-purpose voice interface in your living room, while the rest of the community gets to have a nice number of niche use cases powered by Alexa.
Bergeron proposed "I suggest you pick up a $100 general-purpose voice-recognition package from your local microcomputer center and work with it for a week.
You could even use voice as a biometric marker for authentication purposes.
I want my son to see gentleness and caring as manly attributes, and my daughter to see strength of purpose and voice as feminine.
But in these years he appears to us as a figure of strength, probity, and purpose, a voice of remembrance and an agent of renewal.
I'm looking forward to working with them both to further underline the Guardian's purpose and voice in the United States".
As one of the original "muckrakers," Steffens wrote newspaper and magazine exposés that gave journalism a new purpose, a voice in American democracy beyond simply endorsing one party or another.
A magical idea, a purpose, a voice inside of us screaming, "I wanna do that!" But instead my then floors and couches were quietly occupied by the ones that were still in the dark, and outside on the streets on both sides of the river and beyond, everything was a whisper.
But "Uncivil" neither overdoes it nor tries to be badass — it's reporting fascinating stories that most of us haven't heard and need to hear now, with humor, slang, and purpose, in voices natural to the hosts and the storytellers.
Different ways of facilitating social criticism may have formal purpose of voicing social and ethical views, to have an influence on policies involved.
