Building Alexa into a Rotary Phone

[jonahb]

https://medium.com/@mikedodge/how-i-built-an-alexa-powered-rotary-phone-4bf51f337efc

[rkagerer]

As soon as you pick up the handset, I manually simulate the wake word and Alexa starts listening as if you’d just said it.

That's a nice touch. Also kudos to the privacy benefits keeping her deaf until you pick up the receiver.