Alexa Part of Artemis I Mission to the Moon, Says Amazon
Alexa is part of NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon, said Amazon Monday, saying voice-enabled computers on Star Trek spaceships were an inspiration for Amazon’s voice engine. Amazon engineers began working on the project in 2018 to solve issues…
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with extreme forces, vibrations and radiation, blogged Arun Krishnan, editor-in-chief, Amazon Alexa. They also had to make sure Alexa could follow commands throughout the 42-day, 1.3-million-mile trip, including within 62 miles of the lunar surface, without Wi-Fi. In space, Alexa Local Voice Control processes commands locally, technology that could be extended for other uses, Krishnan said. To make sure Alexa could understand speech in a noisy environment, engineers designed two mics with a processing algorithm that combines signals from the mics in a way that helps Alexa make sense of commands coming from mission control, he said. Alexa device owners can follow Artemis I by saying, “Alexa, take me to the moon.”