and the difficulties don't stop there. smart speakers, like amazon echo google assistant or apple. siri, are trained using voice recording, spanning high women's voices and deep mailbox. but since fewer women's voices are used to train these speaking a i assistance, they have a harder time understanding female voices. another problem is that these devices are set to speak with a woman's voice by default, once in california, begins issuing state ideas when the 3rd genera becomes 5th state to allow their gender on licenses it 2019 unesco report shows that this can have real life consequences alexa, are not the ones okay. given orders to a seemingly female assistant could perpetuate the cliche that it's easier to tell a woman what to do than a man. but there's help in sight. like the gender neutral voice assistant q from denmark. hi, i'm q. the world's 1st gentlest voice assistant. what a great idea. why do digital voice assistance have to be men or women anyway? they're just machines. and we should look at the digital world through a more diverse lance. whether it comes through design, pr

amazon's most dominant. if you think about a lot of their echo devices, the good news is that amazon makes a lot of devices thateverage alexa, but a lot of other consumer electronic companies do too. leveraging alexa, it is not just the echo device line, but the fact that so many manufacturers -- take sonos as an example -- are making product integrating alexa. that is my initial take on their new hardware offerings. i'm fascinated and i'm glad you talked to him about the irobot acquisition. what is it about the room but that attracted amazon, -- the roomba that attracted amazon and what made it think it needs to make the acquisition? ed: the timing is interesting because we just had news of essentially a second prime day next month. do you expect consumers to rush out and gobble up these devices? tom: that is a no. the second prime day in one calendar year -- as a longtime student of amazon, i remember when they had the first prime day in july, and the reason was they wanted to test their logistics to see if they were ready for the big sales day -- cyber monday. in my opinion, having to prime days in the calen

purview it's hard to predict what q4 will look like in this economy >> sure is amazon announced updates to its fire tv line new echoesnd in an uncertain holiday corner and google's consumer event is a week from today. >> these amazon devices, they've got to be on the more discretionary side of things, the first that consumers will opt out. that's not the point for amazon. it feeds into the core business, the prime flywheel it will be interesting to see if that encourages or underlines that value proposition that's been successful over time. talking about the macro softbank that's next. don'gowa t ay. municipal bonds don't usually get the media coverage the stock market does. in fact, most people don't find them all that exciting. but, if you're looking for the potential for consistent income that's federally tax-free, now is an excellent time to consider municipal bonds from hennion & walsh. if you have at least 10,000 dollars to invest, call and talk with one of our bond specialists at 1-800-376-4376. we'll send you our exclusive bond guide free. with details about how bonds can be an important part of your portfoli

amazon updates four echo devices with an improved bass. a new temperature sensors and gesture control and built in wifi extender. it can improve your network coverage in your home. >> what are gesture controls clap on and clap off >> the clapper >> and the company introduced the kindle scribe. make a to-do list. and write directly on the pages of the book you are reading. and amazon's new fire tv feature and qled picture is available in 65 and 75 inch models. >>> separately, amazon is raising pay for hourly employees as it prepares for the holiday shopping season. average pay is increasing to from $18 to $19 an hour. amazon said the raises represent investment of $1 billion of the next year. that move comes a year after the last pay hike from amazon. >>> we are watching apple. big story from yesterday and big mover. the tech giant was down 1.3% after a bloomberg report said the company is ditching plans to increase iphone production after demand fell short of expectations the stock now down they were going to increase production a lot of c

amazon's turn. cnet is here with with a preview. what will be unveiled today? that's the big question. >> reporter: some of the thingse expect we could see are updates to things like the echo dot smart speaker, maybe updates to ring, the home security system.d doorbell. maybe even fire tv. oe tablets. i was taking a peek at what we have a live blog at cnee we're kind of updating what's gg on and i quickly looked over one one of the things that's been announced is something called the kindle scribe. basically a bigger ereader with a stylist and you can take notes and draw and that is about $400. so we'll we'll see what other products ce out of this. but essentially you you know, amazon use this to debut new devices and new services and features. >> and today's launch event wile pretty big but there's also a nw announcement about amazon's prie day too. so what can you tell us us about that? >> this is an event that amazons calling prime early access saled it's right there in the name. yu know, this -- this starts octobr 11th and 12th. and the goal here here is to basically get a head start on holiday shopping. you can use this event to kind of you know, look at gifts and wha

echo auto is also there to give you a little extra peace of mind. you can now use alexa to call for roadside help and paper incident. >> amazon introduce its cheapest floodlights security camera yet at just $100. plus an accessory that lets are inexpensive blink, cameras look around. there's a new alexa remote that lets you switch inputs and a new line of premium fire tv's. they started $800 and double as a frame showing information. plus, art work or family photos when you're not watching shows mckeown series is smart enough to come on. when you walk into the living room in the morning. but to stay off when you head to the kitchen for midnight snack. >> some of the products are available for preorder. now, others are going to have to wait a bit longer for me personally. i want that kindle you can write on because i've always been a paper and pen kind of person, although does not even count. all right. more information, you can find me on social media. i am at rich on tech. i'm rich demuro and you are tech smart. >> yeah, kids. the battery never went out when we had pen and paper. no. but if you sharpen ing it >> it was kind of stuck with it sharp

echo auto is also there to give you a little extra peace of mind. you can now use alexa to call for roadside help and paper incident. >> amazon introduce its cheapestodlights security camera yet at just $100. plus an accessory that lets are inexpensive blink, cameras look around. there's a new alexa remote that lets you switch inputs and a new line of premium fire tv's. they started $800 and double as a frame showing information. plus, art work or family photos when you're not watching shows the on the cuban series is smart enough to come on. when you walk into the living room in the morning. but to stay off when you head to the kitchen for midnight snack. >> some of the products are available for preorder. now, others are going to have to wait a bit longer for me personally. i want that kindle you can write on because i've always been a paper and pen kind of person, although does not even count. all right. more information, you can find me on social media. i am at rich on tech. i'm rich demuro and you are tech smart. >> let's check in with newsnation to see what they're working on for tonight's live from edinburg, texas. only on newsnation. the te

echo auto is also there to give you a little extra peace of mind. you can now use alexa to call for roadside help and paper incident. >> amazon introduce its cheapest floodlights security camera yet at just $100. plus an accessory that lets are inexpensive blink, cameras look around. there's a new alexa remote that lets you switch inputs and a new line of premium fire tv's. they started $800 and double as a frame showing information. plus, art work or family photos when you're not watching shows the on the cuban series is smart enough to come on. when you walk into the living room in the morning. but to stay off when you head to the kitchen for midnight snack. >> some of the products are available for preorder. now, others are going to have to wait a bit longer for me. personally. i want that kindle you can write on because i've always been a paper and pen kind of person, although does not even count. all right. more information, you can find me on social media. i am at rich on tech. i'm rich demuro and you are tech smart. >> a lot of fun ideas out there and that'll do it for us here. the kron, 4 news at at noon. let's send things over to olivia ho

echo auto is also there to give you a little extra peace of mind. you can now use alexa to call for roadside help and paper incident. >> amazon introduce its cheapestodlights security camera yet at just $100. plus an accessory that lets are inexpensive blink, cameras look around. there's a new alexa remote that lets you switch inputs and a new line of premium fire tv's. they started $800 and double as a frame showing information. plus, art work or family photos when you're not watching shows the on the cuban series is smart enough to come on. when you walk into the living roou in the morning. but to stay off when you head to the kitchen for midnight snack. >> some of the products are available for preorder. now, others are going to have to wait a bit longer for me personally. i want that kindle you can write on because i've always been a paper and pen kind of person, although does not even count. all right. more information, you can find me on social media. i am at rich on tech. i'm rich demuro and you are tech smart. all right, kendall becoming a writing tablets to yeah. i was going to say all the kids use the ipad and for that and in class and th