Something for you, Mr. Bezos :)

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Alexa, Amazon, Bezos, invention, Kindle, text to speech

I own the first (at least I think so) version of Amazon Kindle. It has a function called “text to speech” which does what is says – it reads book for you, somewhat mechanically. I think it is because it reads word by word, and that sounds “robotic” and not at all natural. It misses feel, punctuation, flow of normal read.

Add to this the following theory: if we will have endless number of monkey hammering randomly on some typewriter, we are bound to find one which will write some coherent book.

Finally, Amazon’s “Alexa” comes to picture. As far as I know, Alexa listens to everything that happens in its vicinity. Well, Mr. Bezos, I think that you already know what I am about to say: from all that Alexa listens to you are bound to find sentences fitting a book where the flow is right (money principle from above). You can even find whole books read by parents to their children. Get those, give it Alexa’s voice and voila – you have your text to speech pretty much for free. And it will be much better than the old one.

Crazy Ideas Or…?

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cloud, crazy ideas, distribution channels, idea, internet piracy, invention, music, music industry, revolution

I think that I touched on a crazy idea in my post about new ideas for music industry, which, when you think about it, is not so crazy. Get rid of CDs, DVDs, Blue Rays etc… And why not? In order for people to be able to copy, they need to have something to copy from. In digital age, any original can be multiplied – almost without loss of quality – endlessly. What would then happen if there was no original? Or if it was, but not available to masses only to its creator?

We do not HAVE to own music to be able to listen to it. Radio is the best example. iPod, after all, is nothing else than a radio which plays your scenario. Your music in the way you want it. Do you care if you OWN those songs as long as those are being played when you want and how you want?

If music industry would drop satellite digital radio, smart phones, satellite communication and cloud technology into one huge bucket and stir, what would come out? Music industry stubbornly holds onto old technologies, sales and distribution channels – even availability of DVD did not change the CD. Wake up people and stop protecting something which is long-lost – you need to come up with new, we will follow. If there will be no CDs to buy, what other choice will we have? Sometimes crazy ideas are the new standards of tomorrow.