The Alexa app quickly connects new devices you add to your smart home with little effort on your end and lets you control devices from different manufacturers in one place. If a smart home device says ...

Pet soundboards allow our four-legged friends to press buttons and express themselves in human language. But is it real? UC ...

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized home automation, offering higher levels of functionality. This paper presents a smart home automation system that uses different IoT ...

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Abstract: Text emotion detection has become an increasingly important area of research, with applications ranging from sentiment analysis to enhanced human-computer interaction. The performance of ...

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all ...

I programmed it with ESPHome, and it only took a few hours from start to finish.

Alexa+ is a generative-AI-powered virtual assistant. It responds with a more natural cadence, handles multiple prompts within a single query, and generates content rather than providing canned answers ...