“Alexa, spell dough!”was Akemi’s request.
“Dog is spelled D-O-G,”came the response.
“Alexa, spell doooough,”Akemi tried again, enunciating carefully.
“Do is spelled D-O,”replied Alexa.
I felt bad because I really thought she had nailed the pronunciation that time. So I tried: “Alex, spell dough.”
“Do is spelled D-O.”
“Alex, spell DOUGH!”
“Do is spelled D-O.”
Akemi was greatly amused.
Anyone who has Alexa at home mind giving it a try. Has my time in quarantine degraded my English pronunciation that badly?
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Hulk Gray
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
16 year old Sabrina Spellman faces high school pressures and supernatural vengeance in this gloriously macabre, pull-no-punches reimagining of the iconic character.@WriterRAS @Robert_Hack Jack Morelli @ArchieComics pic.twitter.com/hH2nBOmaLA— Joseph Mallozzi (@BaronDestructo) May 13, 2020
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The Marvels Project
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My Alexa also said Do is spelled D … O
Your friendly linguist (me) says to try,
“Alexa, spell ‘bread dough’.”
Let me know if that works.
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It worked.
My Google home spells it correctly. Siri actually gives me all four spellings of the appropriate homonyms.
Don’t have one of those. I have never seen the need to get one. And anything I can do to make things hard for our lizard overlords….
Alexa, spell “Dough”.
“Do is spelled D O”.
Alexa, spell “Dough”.
“Do is spelled D O”.
Alexa, spell “Dough”.
“Dog is spelled D O G”.
Alexa, spell “Dough”.
“Door is spelled D O O R”.
Instead of asking to spell “dough”, ask it to spell “bread dough”. Siri got it right first time.
When I ask Ok Google on my phone to spell dough, it returns with DOE. Although dough comes up as an option.
As gilder suggests, bread dough is accurate.
Suggest ditch alexa. Ok Google has the best voice recognition I have ever seen.
Not Alexa, but when I asked my Google Assistant to spell, it replied “Dough is spelled D-O-U-G-H.”
Got it right the first time!
Try “Alexa, play Dance Monkey”
I got E O. E??? Bread dough works. She knows Doe a Deer though.
I don’t talk to Alexa, or Siri or that X Box voice that blurts out responses if it hears keywords in convos. I’m seeing lots of news about the tweetstorm, woo hoo!