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I'm surprised at the number of people saying there's a noticeable difference. I've been using Dots for a few months, now, and it pretty much understands me eve

I'm surprised at the number of people saying there's a noticeable difference. I've been using Dots for a few months, now, and it pretty much understands me every time, even with the vent hood of the range on, etc. I did have one odd error, where when I named one of my lamps 'halogen', Alexa would always ask back "did you mean halogen?" with the exact same pronunciation I had used. Then proceed to turn it off or on like I'd asked in the first place. This struck me as more of a bug than anything else, and I worked around it by just using a different name. But still, if that's the only listening error I've dealt with after several months' use, I'm impressed.

B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago
> when I named one of my lamps 'halogen', Alexa would always ask back "did you mean halogen?" with the exact same pronunciation I had used. Maybe due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping ?
- Baeocystin 8y ago
  An interesting thought. In my case, though, I live and work in the bay area of California, so no H-dropping, and the accent I use is probably the one that is the most common in terms of use for a training set. (I was saying 'hale-oh-gen', as was Alexa, FWIW. Now I'm curious if others can repeat the same error!)