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Old 01-10-2016, 01:41 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
No display, no graphics, and very little local processing required.
Alexa does the heavy lifting in the cloud. That's how they constantly add new features without firmware updates.

Odds are the TTS won't be running local but rather streamed.
You are correct that it could get help from the cloud, Google Books offers that for phones using text-to-speech. But that hardware is almost unforgivable when you consider a Fire TV stick has "awesome hardware" compared to Echo.
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