Sound Ledger: Alexa, Noise, More Noise

46,700,000: Amount in dollars Amazon must pay due to an Alexa-related “speech recognition and natural language processing” patent legal case

65: Targeted maximum noise level, in decibels, in Brussels, where fountains, among other approaches, are addressing with the problem

60: Peak noise level, in decibels (and the lowest in five years), recorded during 2022 Diwali activities (Gurgaon, Haryana, India)

Sources: Amazon (reuters.com), Brussels (archinect.com), noise (indiatimes.com)