{"id":123227,"date":"2018-01-31T23:21:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123227"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:10:04","slug":"alexas-whisper-mode-rolls-out-to-echo-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/123227-alexas-whisper-mode-rolls-out-to-echo-speakers","title":{"rendered":"Alexa\u2019s Whisper Mode rolls out to Echo speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has begun rolling out Whisper Mode for its Alexa digital assistant,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2018\/10\/18\/17995092\/amazon-alexa-whisper-mode-guard-context-aware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Using this new feature, users can whisper questions to their Amazon Echo device and Alexa will whisper a response that is far quieter than normal.<\/p>\n<p>The feature was announced last month and forms part of Amazon\u2019s efforts to make its Alexa assistant sound more human-like.<\/p>\n<p>Whisper Mode is reportedly powered by the same technology behind Alexa Guard, which recognises smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and glass breaking, turning Alexa into a home security system.<\/p>\n<p>Alexa\u2019s Whisper mode is currently only available in English to users in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alexa&#8217;s new whisper mode is clever but also kinda super creepy??? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6IM1mQoee\">pic.twitter.com\/N6IM1mQoee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 dan seifert (@dcseifert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcseifert\/status\/1052967130247901186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123228-mit-develops-new-way-to-fight-spectre-and-meltdown-attacks.html\">MIT develops new way to fight Spectre and Meltdown attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has begun rolling out Whisper Mode for its Alexa digital assistant,\u00a0The Verge\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":123184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[19631,2794,23882],"class_list":["post-123227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-echo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123230,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123227\/revisions\/123230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}