The development of talking technology isn’t as recent as you might think.
In 1773 Christian Kratzenstein built a speaking machine using tubes and organ pipes to make artificial vocal chords; and in 1939 the first electronic speech synthesizer called VODER (Voice Operating DEmonstratoR) said the words “Good evening, radio audience” at the New York World’s Fair.
But at this point in tech history, the voice assistant du jour is Amazon’s Alexa – and its inclusion in the new Fire TV Stick is the most obvious change between the now-discontinued 2015 version and this new iteration.
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