On: Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps and No Runaway Hit

[sp332]

Amazon added a real-time sanity check, so if too many Echo devices are triggered with similar sounds within a few hundred milliseconds, it will ignore them. This was after some TV ads or shows had intentionally abused it.

[justusthane → sp332]

Wow! That feels kind of insane, but makes so much sense.

[eecks → sp332]

Is this true? Triggering is done locally in the device.

[detaro → eecks]

But they can ignore/cancel the request server-side, so technically the detection triggers, but no command does.