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I couldn't care less about the downvotes - I'm wondering if it's ability to start a multi-question conversation with someone who can't pronounce "Alexa" properly is not worth being paranoid about, at what point would you become concerned?


Isn't hotword detection (especially locally) more about cadence / pitch / frequency rather than the word itself?


Not remotely an expert on how those algorithms work - but that's kinda what I'm talking about. If I can be confident it won't activate until someone clearly says, "Alexa", then I'm not too worried because the older kids understand they're not supposed to mess with it in ways we haven't taught them. If my 2-year-old can activate it when he doesn't remotely say it properly, I'm worried about what he can accidentally do on it, what else activates it accidentally, etc.




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