{"id":80940,"date":"2018-07-25T22:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/amazon-will-prevent-command-confusion-on-all-alexa-devices"},"modified":"2018-07-25T22:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:42:48","slug":"amazon-will-prevent-command-confusion-on-all-alexa-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/amazon-will-prevent-command-confusion-on-all-alexa-devices","title":{"rendered":"Amazon will prevent command confusion on all Alexa devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-will-prevent-command-confusion-on-all-alexa-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/12\/18\/amazon-echo-spot-review\/\">Echo lineup<\/a>, like some smart speakers, uses proximity detection to decide which device is best-suited to responding to your voice commands. It\u2019s a clever way to prevent multiple devices from waking up at the same time. There\u2019s just one problem: support in non-Amazon devices has been inconsistent at best, creating a mess if you have third-party gear that doesn\u2019t use the feature. Thankfully, that shouldn\u2019t be an issue from here on out. Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/blogs\/alexa\/post\/042be85c-5a62-4c55-a18d-d7a82cf394df\/esp-moves-to-the-cloud-for-alexa-enabled-devices\">has moved<\/a> its Echo Spatial Perception technology to the cloud, ensuring that all devices can use it.<\/p>\n<p>The ESP upgrade is automatic and doesn\u2019t require any changes on the part of hardware makers. It\u2019s also more accurate, according to Amazon, and can change over time as Alexa receives upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t change some limitations for multi-device households. Many commands still apply specifically to the device where they\u2019re set, such as reminders and timers. Even so, this could be a crucial update for Amazon. If it\u2019s going to bring Alexa to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/04\/17\/lg-appliances-support-alexa-and-google-assistant\/\">virtually every device<\/a> it can, it has to create a harmonious ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/25\/amazon-echo-spacial-perception-in-cloud\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/25\/amazon-echo-spacial-perception-in-cloud\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s Echo lineup, like some smart speakers, uses proximity detection to decide which device is best-suited to responding to your voice commands. It\u2019s a clever way to prevent multiple devices from waking up at the same time. There\u2019s just one problem: support in non-Amazon devices has been inconsistent at best, creating a mess if you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}