Originally posted by naellis
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However, there are situations where knowing which Alexa device heard it could be useful. Not just for "turn on the lights" and have it automagically figure out what you meant. Unless you're living in an apartment with only one source of light in a given room. But they're you not likely to have multiple Alexa devices. So it's one of those seems like a good idea, but really isn't a large enough market opportunity to actually make sense to implement.
Where I'd see it useful would be as a means to 'narrow down' likely intentions. The Alexa system itself does some of this already. If you ask it "turn on the kitchen" and you have more than one device with 'kitchen' in the name it'll prompt you for which one. it doesn't make the next leap and rattle off a list of them (boy, THAT would be helpful). But little things like this go a long way toward reinforcing customer satisfaction with buying automation gear.
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