Man hacked his Alexa to speak out of a singing fish, and it's horrifying (mashable.com)

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That's not horrifying, that's awesome. But the clickbait title got me to look at it, so I shouldn't criticize.

That's actually great user experience and I'm certain someone will make a product with a similar idea (physical movement that signifies the bot is listening and talking).

I watch it over and over just for the fish lifting its head and mouthing "blodoop". For some reason, this is infinitely entertaining.

AFIK, Alexa doesn't have an API the gives speech timing info. I assume this must monitor the sound and trigger a mouth movement whenever the wave amplitude goes over a certain threshold. Would be cool to make a reusable monitor/trigger component along with different swappable animatronic figures (cats, ardvarks, Trump's head, ...). I'd buy one for the office.

Would have been nice if the video wasn't in a walled garden.

Horrifying and/or hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBqiW1R5_JM

Finally Billy the Big Mouth Bass has a purpose in life

As an aside, I find Alexa's voice much better than either Google Now or Siri. It still sounds a bit robotic, but it feels quite soothing compared to the harsh Google Voice or the "too robotic" Siri.