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You might try adding more information such as, "Alexa play 'Strogoula' by New Model Army." The more information you give her, the better she seems to work.
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And more often than not, I get a 'I can't find the song...' reply to that exact request. I normally have no problems getting Alexa to understand me
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As far as Einstürzende Neubauten goes, I think Alexa is going to be totally confused with German pronunciation, or any language other than English if that is Alexa's native tongue, especially if it is not pronounced correctly. So definitely give Alexa as much info as you can.
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The Echo is also available is Germany, so I would have thought Alexa should be able cope but it seems that the UK version, like most Brits, doesn't do languages too well ... I am not a German speaker so can't claim that my pronunciation is flawless but I can manage the name of the band ok. I wouldn't however attempt to ask for a specific song if the title's in German Good thing I guess that their albums aren't on Prime music. Still, I've found that if I say Einstürzende Neubauten slowly enough then Alexa gets it more often than not.
Edit: And for a laugh I just asked it to play 'les habitudes n'existent pas' by Jad Wio. I can claim flawless French pronunciation since that is my mother tongue
I can confirm that the British Alexa doesn't do languages
we got there in the end after a frustrating 10 minutes or so, but its pronunciation of the title/band name is hilariously wrong