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Alexa, please tell me about the... Attorneys general Senators elect Ahhhhhhh!
The difference is that these are phrases with adjectives, not nouns being used adjectivally.
Amazon is pulling ahead. Siri still adds 'All man milk' to my shopping list instead of almond milk.
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Examples? I seem to constantly get nothing from simple grammar questions. :(
I use a Google Home, not Alexa, but I ask it oddly-worded things all the time. Here's two from the past week that worked: "Can you see if Reply All has a new episode and if so play it?" "Can I still use these green peppers I got two weeks ago?"
My devices are basically just gateways to audible, radio, and general timers. I have begun using the announcement features, but it is amusing to see the kids basically having announcement wars.
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The difference is that these are phrases with adjectives, not nouns being used adjectivally.
"Attorney generals" is a noun phrase (admittedly of questionable adjectivity). "Attorneys general" is a blind idiot translation of a phrase in a language with different grammatical rules (Latin, IIRC).
Did ancient Romans have attorneys general?
In text parsing, this whole machine learning would be implemented as "ignore white space as delimiter" ( that's how I implemented it on one of my projects) Ps. I'm aware this will not be a popular comment
Sentences spoken aloud don't have commas.
When spoken, a shopping list is not a sentence. There's a small pause and/or different emphasis on the start of each item that can be learned (humans, for one, can discern it).
"Eggs milk peanut-butter" sounds different than "Eggs milk peanut butter".
(Besides it can easily learn that peanut, singular, is not a thing people order: it's either "peanuts" or "peanut-butter" etc).
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Assuming most cultures have "coffee cream" in their common vernacular seems risky. I've never heard of it.
This. I'd assume it's like "creamer" which is a fake milk substitute from USA I think? But, it could be coffee flavoured cream; or "coffee creams" which are biscuits in the UK, or maybe some sort of confection? Yeah, I should just look it up ...
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Yes, they do. There's evidence to suggest that punctuation marks were devised as pronunciation guides, indicating how to inflect and when to pause, rather than syntactic markers in their own right. Commas in particular indicate a distinctive inflection and short pause in speaking; such would be detectable by Alexa especially if it uses a neural net or similar to analyze human speech.
That was not the point of what I said at all. It Could interpret the vocal cues, yes. As far as I know this is still not a solved problem for speech to text, and results going the other way and trying to guess punctuation is still more reliable. Back to what I really was getting at: I'm pretty sure the person I replied to was suggesting Alexa could just split(',') and call it a day. With text, yes. With voices this w…
Understanding pauses/inflection changes doesn't have to be a "solved problem" to work for cases such as discerning common shopping list style items.
With voices this would be irritatingly unreliable. Everyone talks differently and sometimes people stumble weirdly.
That's an argument against discerning "milk" from "silk" or "coke" from "cork", but that's still managed satisfactorily enough.
Amazon is pulling ahead. Siri still adds 'All man milk' to my shopping list instead of almond milk.