An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
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