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4 min

How Voice Assistants Detect When You Stop Talking

Voice assistants don't wait to understand you, they measure silence, pitch, and energy. The mechanism is simpl…

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
6 min

Why Voice Assistants Struggle With Accents

Voice assistants mishear accented speech far more than standard dialects. Here's the acoustic science behind w…

SISana Iqbal