The backstory of Alexa’s Indian makeover
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The backstory of Alexa’s Indian makeover
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#2I'm so happy because this means we're one step closer for an Alexa for Pakistan.
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#3Can it tell me what caste I'm a part of?
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#4> “Every 100 km there is language change and in every 30 km the dialect changes,”
This is so true. The term number of languages is a bit inadequate when you talk about India. Another issue is the high amount of migration between states. People who moved a generation ago from Gujarat to Tamil Nadu speak Tamil with a few Gujarati mannerisms thrown in. I have seen examples of this in my friends and I have seen the vice versa too. A Tamil family living in Gujarat for a couple of decades. I think Alexa needs to learn the dialect and mannerisms per user. That will be revolutionary.
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#5I was really surprised how it is able to recognise accents, I have friends with so many different accents and it could recognise them all.
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#6I just got an Echo for black friday. I can't get how dumb the thing is with all this press?
Alexa play some ambient music...
"I think you'll like this... playing Selena Gomez"...
Alexa I hate Selena Gomez...
"Shuffling Selena Gomez..."
Alexa Stop
"Playing Stop & Erase by Selena Gomez"
Literally happened here just now.
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#7> “We had to think outside the box of just understanding English. We had to train Alexa to understand the proper noun in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam, among others,” says Kumar
Alexa India's true test will be on how it handles ____glish (where ____ = the base language) that's very common in everyday spoken interactions, esp. in the South.
Ex:
Tanglish = Tamil + English mixed-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglish
Kanglish = Kannada + English mixed in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanglish
Even TV programs have this. For instance some of the Tamil Soap operas on youtube have this message at the beginning
"Marrakama Bell Symbol-la Press Pannunga, Subscribe Pannunga".
= 3 Tamil words, 4 english words. 1 Tamil+English word.
Translation. "Don't forget to press bell symbol and subscribe."
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#8I just got an Echo for black friday. I can't get how dumb the thing is with all this press? Alexa play some ambient music... "I think you'll like this... playing Selena Gomez"... Alexa I hate Selena Gomez... "Shuffling Selena Gomez..." Alexa Stop "Playing Stop & Erase by Selena Gomez" Literally happened here just now.
I don't want to come across as an Alexa fanboy and defend it, but it would help to understand which parts of your interaction you think of as dumb.
I agree Alexa Stop was clearly a mistake (albeit, not one I've ever observed) but for the rest, it's understanding what you said, you simply have different expectations of what the best response is. Were it a human, one wouldn't say they were dumb, just that they had differing taste or ideas.
In particular what did you expect from "I hate Selena Gomez"? Have you seen any other music player that handles that kind of ambiguous "command"?
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#9I just got an Echo for black friday. I can't get how dumb the thing is with all this press? Alexa play some ambient music... "I think you'll like this... playing Selena Gomez"... Alexa I hate Selena Gomez... "Shuffling Selena Gomez..." Alexa Stop "Playing Stop & Erase by Selena Gomez" Literally happened here just now.
I don't want to come across as an Alexa fanboy and defend it, but it would help to understand which parts of your interaction you think of as dumb. I agree Alexa Stop was clearly a mistake (albeit, not one I've ever observed) but for the rest, it's understanding what you said, you simply have different expectations of what the best response is. Were it a human, one wouldn't say they were dumb, just that they had diff…
A natural language interface should adapt to you as opposed to requiring you to adapt to it. The part where it comes across as being "dumb" is where it Requires. The. Human. Being. To. Conform. To. Its. Very. Strict. And. Narrow. Language. Processing. Abilities.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to come across as an Alexa fanboy and defend it, but it would help to understand which parts of your interaction you think of as dumb. I agree Alexa Stop was clearly a mistake (albeit, not one I've ever observed) but for the rest, it's understanding what you said, you simply have different expectations of what the best response is. Were it a human, one wouldn't say they were dumb, just that they had diff…
A natural language interface should adapt to you as opposed to requiring you to adapt to it. The part where it comes across as being "dumb" is where it Requires. The. Human. Being. To. Conform. To. Its. Very. Strict. And. Narrow. Language. Processing. Abilities.
I mean, does “Play something else” work?
That’s one step removed from expecting Alexa to understand human emotions but still a rather natural interaction