Topic: Voice Commands

Jake Lester developed a "No Agenda Skill" for the Amazon Echo, allowing users to stream the show or skip to specific segments via voice commands. Adam Curry attempts to demonstrate the skill live, but the device fails to recognize the "skip 33 minutes" command. The failure is used to illustrate the current limitations of natural language processing in AI.

A technical paper presented to the IEEE reveals that smartphones can be triggered via remote command injection using electromagnetic signals. Researchers demonstrated that voice assistants like Siri can be activated using amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) on the 103 MHz band. This vulnerability allows attackers to issue voice commands to a device from a distance without an audible signal.