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		gtirloni on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Echo Echo can hear you ask a question even while it's playing music I usually have trouble with the Kinect 2's microphone while I'm playing music or watching TV. It's nice that Amazon is concerned about this. Does anyone know how many microphones the Kinect has?

rtkwe on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

Kinect 2 has 4 downward facing microphones:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20683610/recording-with-s...

The Echo probably has an advantage in placement as well as number, having them pointed up seems better than pointing down.

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