Here’s How Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You’re Frustrated

OneZero spoke to Rohit Prasad, chief scientist for Alexa, about the new tone-detecting feature

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
5 min readSep 27, 2019

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AAmazon knows that Alexa doesn’t get everything right, so the virtual personal assistant is picking up a new trick later this year: Guessing when you’re frustrated.

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.