I think this kid is making much ado about nothing, considering that you
can change the wake word of your Echo to Amazon, Echo or Computer.
Still, you gotta feel a little bit sorry for a kid whose name is Alexa
Siri. From pressofatlanticcity.com
Meet the Stockton student whose name is Alexa Seary
STEVE HUGHES Staff Writer
Sometimes parents bless their children with unfortunate names. Other
times we marry in to families, creating unusual combinations.
And sometimes technology just kind of gets in the way. That's what
happened to Alexa Seary, a 20-year-old from Ventnor.
Thanks to two pieces of voice-recognition technology, her first and last
name are synonymous with the popular cyber-assistants "Alexa" and
"Siri". Alexa is the name Amazon's Echo responds to and Siri is the
famous iPhone virtual assistant.
Seary has taken it in stride, according to the Huffington Post.
But she refuses to let her family buy an Amazon Echo, the product that
uses Alexa as the name for the personal assistant.
“My mom’s husband was thinking about getting one and he thought it was
pretty funny,” she told the Huffington Post. “If we had one in our house
it would be a complete disaster. I would scream back every time someone
said ‘Alexa’ automatically or vice versa.”
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