Amazon to Help 3rd Party Devices/ Cloud-Based Wake Word Verification

[malliekm]

...better understand the wake word "Alexa", so says an article I read today.  The Ecobee4 being the first device to get this upgrade so that it won't wake-up with words it thought sounded like Alexa.  Well thats great and all but I  think Amazon needs to work on it's self first.  My Dots are starting to do what others have reported weeks ago.  She's waking up more often with no noise and responding when not spoken to.   It's getting annoying.

It's called Cloud-Based Wake Word Verification "for third-party manufacturers who have Alexa built into their devices. This will make their devices more reliable – and more competitive with Amazon’s own Echo product line, which currently uses a similar system to avoid false positives".

Somewhere I read that you have to update the Alexa app AND that it won't slow down Alexa's response time.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/amazon-is-helping-to-remove-false-wake-words-from-alexas-vocabulary/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/cloud-based-wake-word-verification-alexa-amazon/

[mike27oct]

It will be in the Silver edition of next Echo.  Uh-huh, it will. 

Agree, the darn things blab out of turn all the time.  The other day a Dot reacted to something I said and started playing amazon music.  The word music was not even spoken.