While understanding “any” speech is a great long-term goal, I wish they’d allow these systems to be a little dumber when I want them to.
One example: I often give the same commands to Alexa every day, even at similar times. Yet every few days it just utterly misunderstands those commands, picking words I have never even used before. It doesn’t even offer to choose similar commands I’ve used recently. Worse, the misunderstood command might trigger a paragraph of senseless babble about the misunderstood command, forcing me to shout over Alexa to make it hear the command I really wanted.
So please, please, add some “dumb” options. I want to pick some words, have the system learn them, and just obey commands 90% of the time.
One example: I often give the same commands to Alexa every day, even at similar times. Yet every few days it just utterly misunderstands those commands, picking words I have never even used before. It doesn’t even offer to choose similar commands I’ve used recently. Worse, the misunderstood command might trigger a paragraph of senseless babble about the misunderstood command, forcing me to shout over Alexa to make it hear the command I really wanted.
So please, please, add some “dumb” options. I want to pick some words, have the system learn them, and just obey commands 90% of the time.