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No, it is more important to be able to express emotions in tone and word placement (the same word "please" have a spectre of meanings), and learning to use it i
by asteroidbelt 5y ago
No, it is more important to be able to express emotions in tone and word placement (the same word "please" have a spectre of meanings), and learning to use it is more important than learning to be formally polite.
For example, even without tone, there's quite significant difference between:
- Give me a pen please.
- Can you give me a pen please?
- Please give me a pen.
- necovek 5y agoIf you are suggesting to have Amazon Echo react only on polite tone too, that'd probably solve it too.
- asteroidbelt 5y agoOh sure, and it should also electroshock you if you use incorrect tone when you are trying to be polite.
- Jenk 5y agoAll of which you have to teach your kids anyway, and practicing with Alexa means you won't offend people as much whilst getting more practice. Win win.
- asteroidbelt 5y agoNo it’s not because Alexa does not provide feedback. You can teach kids to mechanically pronounce correct words, but that is not hard, even a parrot can to do that. But teaching to express and recognize emotions is much harder and Alexa won’t help with that (may even do worse, although unlikely).
- axaxs 5y agoMost politeness is feigned anyways, it still sounds nicer. In your examples, if all 3 were said in the same, monotonous tone, 2 is much nicer to hear, especially compared to just 'give me a pen', which is how most people order food.