Amazon’s AZ1 Neural Edge processor will make Alexa voice commands even faster

Amazon Amazon unveiled the AZ1 Neural Edge processor, a silicon module that will speed up Alexa’s ability to answer your queries and commands by hundreds of milliseconds per response. The company built this module alongside MediaTek, and it will allow for on-device neural speech recognition for new products, and it’s built into the new Echo and Echo Show 10 it announced today. These products, Amazon says, have “the on-device memory needed to support this level of processing.&r