Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it’s not ready to run my life
A year-long review finds Alexa Plus strong for smart homes but weak as a personal assistant, with intrusive Echo ads.
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Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end
Some Amazon Echo speakers running Alexa Plus repeatedly say or sing “lalala,” and Amazon is working on a fix.
ECHO: A Matched-Contrast Benchmark for Context-Sensitive Turn-Taking in Full-Duplex Dialogue
ECHO benchmark pairs identical-overlap Chinese dialogue examples with contrasting contexts, revealing most full-duplex systems bias toward yielding the floor.