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That Budget Smart Speaker Brand Switched Their Mic Array and Nobody Noticed
I saw the teardown videos for the Echo Dot 4th gen versus the 5th gen, and the newer one went from a 7-mic array down to 4 mics (which explains why mine stopped hearing me from across the room). Has anyone else had their smart speaker get worse at picking up commands after a hardware revision like that?
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nguyen.tara1d ago
7 mics down to 4 is a pretty big cut, especially for far-field listening where every mic helps filter out room noise. Changing the wake word might kinda help if your current one isn't cutting through, but it wont fix the hardware limitation of fewer mics spread further apart. If you really need it to hear you from across the room, you're probably stuck either moving the speaker closer or looking at a different brand that still uses a bigger array.
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