Amazon alexa working

Question

A simple search of "how alexa works" yielded no results so here it is.

If you go through the documentation for utterances the need to exhaustively list out all possible variations is ridiculous. For example you need to list down the following variations separately to support them.

• what's my horoscope

• what is my horoscope

• what my horoscope is

Maybe I didn't interpret the documentation correctly but I'm just curious as to where exactly the machine learning algorithms come in for identifying intents and skills.

Any pointers to helpful resources will be fine too.

Answer 1

Just pure pattern matching on the transcribed text. We are still in 21st century ...