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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by deanCommie on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @04:59PM (#41062032)
What do you need Alexa to do with your smart home that it can't do today? https://www.amazon.com/alexa-smart-home/b?ie=UTF8&node=21442...

Seems like the voice-smart-home problem is the same as the voice-shopping problem: There is a limit to how many features you can/want to support in a voice interface.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by Domenic_S on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @06:29PM (#41062901)
It just sucks. I get non-deterministic reactions from "turn off the lights" vs "turn off every light" vs "all lights off".. one of those phrases eventually works. I had to set up a custom action ("goodnight") to reliably do the thing.

If they focused on getting voice control for home automation perfect, it could be a real winner.

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