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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by RestlessMind on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:33AM (#18843017)
I neither work on Alexa nor on Google Assistant. But based on my experience, going from 99% accuracy to 99.9% would require much more data than 0.9%. Same with adding each subsequent "9".

And the perceived quality difference between 99% accuracy and 99.99% accuracy is much much bigger.

Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by frankchn on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:47AM (#18843297)
In my experience, like with high availability, each additional 9 requires between double to 10x the resources to achieve.