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It wasn't for diaper ordering, Alexa has a feature to detect particular sounds (like glass breaking, dog barking etc) for monitoring and alerting purposes. Basically it involved adding hotword recognition for not just the N number of hotwords but also Y number of sounds for particular devices.


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