Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent

In a study by Uswitch, it was found that Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents are the hardest for voice assistants like Alexa to understand. Here’s why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent.

Give your smart speaker a break, it’s working pretty hard

give alexa a break

The microphone technology in your smart speaker, it’s pretty impressive. When you talk, sound leaves your mouth, but it doesn’t travel in a straight line. It travels like a shotgun and it just blasts in all different directions and then bounces around the room and you get reflections. It’s called reverb, and those reflections are […]

Conversational ear worms

conversational ear worms

What is the conversational equivalent of an ear worm? An ear worm is a song that you just cannot get out of your head. It doesn’t matter how hard you try it just sticks in there. If any of you have got kids then you’ll know exactly what it’s like to wake up at five […]

New Alexa features for developers from Alexa Live 2020

Now we have a couple weeks that have passed since Alexa Live: those few hours where Amazon just blew our minds and announced 31 new features. There are new features for designers, for businesses and, of course, for devs as well. Now let’s look at a few features that I find most important and most […]

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