If the local service detects a suspected
wake word utterance, the service will activate and wait for the request from a user.
In this way, local compute resources are used to identify a likely
wake word utterance and the more robust cloud resources the verify if the local interpretation was correct.
Not exact matches
Wake words come at the beginning of an
utterance.
«With this update, the
wake word engine on the device handles the initial detection of «Alexa,» and then a secondary cloud - based check verifies the
utterance.
Please include the
wake word «Alexa» in
utterances.
He also weighs in on the difference between speech recognition for
wake words compared to intent
utterances.
Reason for change: This feature improves «Alexa»
wake word accuracy on AVS products by identifying and reducing false
wakes that are caused by
utterances that sound similar to the
wake word.
With this update, the
wake word engine (WWE) on the device handles the initial detection of «Alexa», and then a secondary cloud - based check verifies the
utterance.
If the user says the
wake word and a command, this
utterance is recognized in the context of the skill.