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Originally Posted by OtinG
First of all, Alexa is marketed as VOICE control, not TEXT control. So I doubt Amazon will feel the need to spend the time to make her have a usable and easy text command interface. I agree it would be nice, but that really is beyond the scope of her design capabilities. ...
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And yet it has routines, skills, let's you type in phrases, ...
I believe it would be much easier to interpret a typed in text, than trying to interpret spoken text. I believe you can go back and see everything that you said as text.
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... Second, I think you are overly optimistic that Alexa would always 100% accurately interpret and carry out text commands. I notice that she often accurately hears what I say, but stills screws up the commands. I suspect the algorithms she uses to interpret and then carry out commands is flawed. (Probably server side errors.) For example, I've had her tell me a certain named device does not exist, when in fact it does. A second or third command to turn on that device finally works. In all instances I can see that she actually correctly identified the device's name, yet was too stupid to realize it actually existed. Entering the text command to turn on that device would have probably failed too as there is apparently an algorithm error taking place that is not related to how she hears but is related to how she identifies devices, scenes, etc. Two months ago I was bragging about how much better Alexa was interpreting and carrying out voice commands. But lately she has fallen back into her old ways of screwing up a lot. The server side software is certainly suspect as it is fluid and constantly being updated. Sometimes they make it better, sometimes they screw it up worse. ...
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I'm relatively ignorant on language/command/AI processing, but at some point, the command (voice or text) would be parsed and made into tokens, and the parsing is much easy with text than audio. If those tokens are processed differently (everything else being constant), than it is a bug. Bugs can be dealt with, non-existing functionality can't.
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... Another failure point is with the Amazon Alexa servers. Sometimes things just go into gaga land when the Alexa device sends it off to be processed by her server. In such cases there will be failure regardless of what you do.
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The "server going gaga" is a red herring. Whether processing audio or text, going gaga is going to happen.
Do you really believe that it easier to process audio spoken commands than typed in commands?