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What's the story for multiple devices being triggered by a single utterance of the wake word?

I have a Alexa or Google device in nearly every room so that '[wake word] lights [on|off]' or whatever does the right thing for that space. Alexa devices are pretty good about processing from the 'right' device when multiple are triggered. Google, not-so-much.

(Also a gap in both platforms is that they don't pass along the triggering device information)




I get really excited about this one!

Right now we don't do anything about it. BUT - I get excited because our wake word detection and speech rec is so good I have to go around my house and unplug all of my other devices when I'm doing development because otherwise a bunch of them wake. So it's good and bad right now :).

My thinking hasn't completely formed but I believe I have a few potential solutions to this issue in mind.

I've been replying to comments for 12 hours, can you let me slide on this one ;)? I promise we'll start discussing/working on it publicly fairly soon.




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