An ice-rink kiosk answers “your skates are in locker twelve” when a parent asked about a missing hat, yet the spoken words are crisp and clear. Which stage should the next experiment inspect?
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Short Explanation
The kiosk heard clearly and spoke clearly—but answered the wrong question. That points at understanding, not the ear or the mouth. Next experiment: swap or inspect only the NLP stage.
Full Explanation
Pipeline localization uses symptoms: crisp speech-in and speech-out with a semantically wrong reply implicates the NLP/language stage. ASR and TTS need not be the first variables when they appear healthy. Isolating understanding keeps the conversational experiment focused.