A better question is "coconut, milk" versus "coconut milk".
A better question is "coconut, milk" versus "coconut milk".
Sure, but if you were dictating to a human that would still be an easy one for them to get wrong, depending on how long you paused.
I find this interesting with phone numbers. In some countries you hear people say "thirty three sixty two" and they mean 303602
As for the phone number, that's why anyone in a serious occupation (aviation, military, etc) treat each digit as is stand-alone.
Three-zero-three-six-zero-two.
You'd be surprised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoPFQm9PQ_M
- a coconut
- [number] coconuts
- shredded coconut
"Coconut" is best matched to that last option, but it's not a natural word choice. (Although it is a natural list entry... do people think of themselves as dictating to Alexa, or as writing the list themselves while happening to use their voice?)
If this is a precursor to being able to quickly voice order stuff off amazon to be delivered though it's a different story.
So it turns into a question of how people think about dictating to Alexa.