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Originally Posted by OtinG
Good luck to them. For the record, I think Alexa only marginally understands American accents. She stumbles over a lot of what we say. I realize that here in America we are a melting pot of peoples from all over the world and thus there are probably thousands of different accents herein, but Alexa even struggles with the more prominent accents too. I think some of that has to do with the transmission of what we say via microphones and through the internet and through her servers. A lot can get lost or messed up in transit, and a lot can get garbled with microphones in an environment with background noises occurring. But I think a lot of it is just due to lack of knowledge on the part of the designers. She occasionally improves, sometimes by a large amount, but here lately she seems to be worse than she has been in a long time...
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The bolded part surprised me. I would have guessed that they would use some lossless/guaranteed protocol.