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Any plans to teach Alexa about homonyms?

My invocation name is 'Aisle Wise'. Alexa, more often than not, interprets this as 'I'll Wise', and the request does not get forwarded to my skill. (I have lost a lot of users because of this.) To remedy, I have recently submitted a duplicate skill to listen for "I'll wise".

Is there any plan to include a homonym list with the invocation name? I shouldn't have to do this hack and publish multiple skills to cover what is clearly a lack of proper coding in Alexa's skill identification algorithm.

(An easy solution for your coders: let users identify homonyms, and then during certification, approve or disapprove of the homonym. Then during skill identification, if it's a failure to match, do a quick check to see if any of the words are in the homonyms list collection made up of certified homonyms, and check again, and eureka, find the skill match!)

I recently did a search on Alexa and homonyms and several articles came up about phishing and that the lack of homonym handling is a security issue.

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newuser-e9ade41e-dce4-488e-b8c2-becede3ed837 answered

I meant developers, not users: (An easy solution for your coders: let users identify homonyms, and then during

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Shaan Sheikh answered

Did you ever find a solution to this other than having multiple skills?

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