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Smart Speakers and Simultaneous Voices: Who Wins

Two people talk to a smart speaker at once, one gets an answer, one doesn't. The decision is acoustic, not sma…

SISana Iqbal
6 min

How Smart Speakers Detect Wake Words in Noise

Smart speakers mishear you because of how wake-word detection actually works. Here's the real mechanism, and w…

SISana Iqbal