https://www.scmp.com/rss/328030/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When Meghan Cruz says, “Hey, Alexa,” her Amazon smart speaker bursts to life, offering the kind of helpful response she now expects from her automated assistant. With a few words in her breezy, North American West Coast accent, the Vancouver-based lab technician gets Alexa to tell her the temperature in Berlin (70 degrees Fahrenheit, or 21 degrees Celsius), the world’s most poisonous animal (a geography cone snail) and the square root of 128, which it offers to the ninth decimal place. From... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2156455/amazons-alexa-and-google-home-show-accent-bias?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2156455/amazons-alexa-and-google-home-show-accent-bias?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:00:45 +0000