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Alexa Juliana Ard is a foreign video editor for The Post, and she's been reporting about how smart speakers can negatively affect people like her. [qh]
Alexa Juliana Ard是“华盛顿邮报”的一名外国视频编辑，她一直在报道智能音箱如何对像她这样的人产生负面影响。[qh]
I want you to go back to 2014, to about this time of year when all the online shopping gears up before the holidays. Imagine it's in November.[qh]
我想让你们回到2014年，回到每年的这个时候，所有的网上购物都在节日前启动。 假设现在是11月。 [qh]
You open your e-mail and see an article from TechCrunch about this new home device called an Amazon Echo.[qh]
你打开电子邮件，看到一篇来自TechCrunch的文章，是关于这款名为Amazon Echo的新型家用设备的。 [qh]
Amazon surprised everyone today and launched a new hardware product called Echo. [qh]
亚马逊今天出乎所有人的意料，推出了一款名为Echo的新硬件产品。[qh]
It's a smart speaker from Amazon that's a personal assistant. [qh]
这是亚马逊的智能音箱，是个人助理。[qh]
You can look up anything online, play music, and turn on your lights, all with your voice.[qh]
你可以在网上查找任何东西，播放音乐，开灯，所有的一切都是通过你的声音实现。[qh]
Can do things like answer questions, where answers are generated from Wikipedia.[qh]
可以做一些事情，比如回答问题，这些答案来自维基百科。 [qh]
To do all these things, the device's artificial intelligence needs to be woken up. [qh]
要实现所有这些事情，需要唤醒该设备的人工智能。[qh]
So Amazon gives this A.I. a name you can call it. [qh]
所以亚马逊给这个人工智能起了个名字。[qh]
And here's the crazy thing -- it's your name.[qh]
最疯狂的是，用了你的名字。 [qh]
How many feet are in a mile?[qh]
一英里有多少英尺? [qh]
Buy more deodorant.[qh]
买更多的除臭剂。 [qh]
It's weird. Maybe you feel a little flattered, but this is just the next tech gadget and probably won't last.[qh]
这很奇怪。也许你觉得有点荣幸，但这只是下一个科技小玩意，很可能不会持续太久。[qh]
Amazon just tried launching a phone a couple months ago, and it wasn't going well.[qh]
几个月前，亚马逊刚刚推出了一款手机，但进展并不顺利。[qh]
The Fire Phone tries to be fun and delightful, but too often, it's just complicated.[qh]
Fire Phone试图变得有趣和令人愉快，但太多时候，它只是复杂。 [qh]
Then time passes. You visit a friend's place for a dinner party.[qh]
然后过去了一段时间。你去朋友家参加晚宴。 [qh]
And you introduce yourself.[qh]
然后介绍你自己。 [qh]
Sorry. I didn't get that.[qh]
对不起。我没听懂。 [qh]
They use your name to tell it to shut up.[qh]
他们用你的名字叫它闭嘴。 [qh]
Your friend asks to call you by a nickname or your last name or just as "they who shall not be named." [qh]
你的朋友要求称呼你的昵称或姓氏，或者就像“那些不能被提及的人”那样。 [qh]
More time passes. The Amazon Echo isn't fading, but getting more popular, adding more features. [qh]
更多的时间流逝了。亚马逊Echo并没有衰落，而是越来越受欢迎，增加了更多的功能。 [qh]
You have a meeting at work. [qh]
你上班要开会。 [qh]
People go around the table introducing themselves. [qh]
人们围着桌子作自我介绍。 [qh]
A guy says your name, and then, in monotone, says...[qh]
一个人说了你的名字，然后，用单调的声音说…… [qh]
How's the weather outside?[qh]
外面天气怎么样? [qh]
You start using a different name when ordering food. [qh]
点餐的时候你开始用不同的名字。 [qh]
It's not worth hearing the same realization, the same jokes again and again.[qh]
发出同样的声音，讲同样的笑话，一遍又一遍地听，是不值得的。 [qh]
Play my favorite song.[qh]
播放我最喜欢的歌曲。 [qh]
Turn on the TV.[qh]
打开电视。 [qh]
How many feet are in a mile? How many feet are in a mile?How many feet are in a mile?[qh]
一英里有多少英尺? 一英里有多少英尺? 一英里有多少英尺? [qh]
You start to think maybe it's something you've done, because there's no way everyone could be so committed to this joke. [qh]
你开始认为这可能是你做过的事，因为不可能每个人都这么热衷于这个笑话。[qh]
Eventually, you can't help but take it personally. [qh]
最终，你会情不自禁地对号入座。 [qh]
All these things really happen to these people.[qh]
所有这些事情都发生在这些人身上。 [qh]
