Description: Natural turn-taking uses multiple cues — acoustic, linguistic, and visual — to help Alexa interact more naturally, without the need to repeat the wake word.
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Read Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad's overview of today's Alexa-related announcements on Amazon's Day One blog .
Alexa’s natural-turn-taking feature — which we plan to launch next year — will let customers interact with Alexa more naturally, without the need to repeat the wake word. The feature’s AI will be able to recognize when users have finished speaking, when their speech is directed at the device, when it’s not, and whether or not a reply is expected.