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So they’re training Alexa not to recognize the specific recording. I’m wondering if this has any side effects for the actors from those ads: if they have an Ale
by Kwpolska 4y ago
So they’re training Alexa not to recognize the specific recording. I’m wondering if this has any side effects for the actors from those ads: if they have an Alexa at home, does it (sometimes) fail to recognize them?
(And wouldn’t it be cool, if somewhat dystopian, if Alexas all over the US quipped “hey, that’s my big sister on the TV!”?)
- paxys 4y agoPossibly, but a system like this would also be time-boxed (turned on for the day of the super bowl or just a few hours).
- crote 4y agoAds usually have music in the background, those get included in the fingerprinting too. Besides that, the fingerprint consists of a number of time slices. The actors personal Alexa will probably only fail if they try to use it with exactly the same millisecond-scale timing, exactly the same intonation, and with exactly the same background noise.
- darkwater 4y agoIf it was like that then a home with some other source of noise (other music stream, someone speaking loudly etc) during the commercial would trigger the hotword. I guess that fingerprinting has to have some sort of tolerance anyway
- bcrl 4y agoI wonder what sort of technical debt the Alexa team is racking up by putting in hacks like this.