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Echo has Selective Hearing

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additude

Re: Echo has Selective Hearing
« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2016, 05:11:31 am »
I'm just wondering if you have gone to echo.amazon.com->Settings->Voice Training and tried that?

Maybe that will your cause?

Gerfnad

Re: Echo has Selective Hearing
« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2016, 11:48:32 am »
Ask Alexa if she's stupid and she'll tell you "I'm still learning".  This is actually the truth.  The echo is a new device and undergoing Constant updating and re-configuring.  Being early users we all have to understand this and roll with it.  Send feedback back to Amazon when things go awry so that they are aware, but please remember this fantastic technology takes time to perfect.  If ever.

PS, I really hate the mandatory captcha on this forum.  What a pain in the backside.

Re: Echo has Selective Hearing
« Reply #17 on: June 01, 2016, 05:04:04 pm »
Ask Alexa if she's stupid and she'll tell you "I'm still learning".  This is actually the truth.  The echo is a new device and undergoing Constant updating and re-configuring.  Being early users we all have to understand this and roll with it.  Send feedback back to Amazon when things go awry so that they are aware, but please remember this fantastic technology takes time to perfect.  If ever.

PS, I really hate the mandatory captcha on this forum.  What a pain in the backside.

what mandatory captcha??? 

Kelleytoons

Re: Echo has Selective Hearing
« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2016, 03:52:55 pm »
I don't want to get too OT here, but just for the sake of information our own Lexa works fine in most cases except for the kitchen Dot (we have two Dots and Echo).  There I have commands that turn on the Kitchen lights, and turn on the Kitchen TV.  I can say "Lexa turn on Kitchen TV" or "Lexa turn on Kitchen" and it works fine.  But when I say "Lexa turn off Kitchen TV" she will *sometimes* turn off both the TV as well as the kitchen lights.

The Kitchen TV is a Harmony command so it's not anywhere near the rest of the lights in the Kitchen group.  And in either case she DOES execute the Harmony command -- it's just that sometimes she also turns off all the lights in the kitchen (three separate devices under one group).  I thought for a bit it was the way I phrased it, so I tried "Lexa turn Kitchen TV off" and that seemed to work... until it didn't.

It's almost like there is a buffer where the word "Kitchen" gets stored and after she has resolved the full phrase "Kitchen TV" she then goes on to see if there is anything else that might match.  In any case, my own advice is to name things VERY distinctly (like the other poster here, I would recommend NOT using the word "lights" in your groups) and then pray.

Yoda_One

Re: Echo has Selective Hearing
« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2016, 04:03:31 pm »
change the Name of Kitchen TV to something else. Alexa Turn Cooking/Chef/Counter TV off. Just a suggestion.



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