Hi,
I know people with Children named Alexa. And I know people named Siri. Neither
name is unusual in the circles I am acquainted with.
And as far as I know none of them have objections to Amazon or Apple products.
I remember when Harry Potter was very popular. There were a lot of people out
there named Harry Potter. News programs loved to feature those dudes having
trouble ordering pizza. They would call Pizza Hut or Dominos ad when they gave
their name the individual on the other end of the line would always hassle them
with various levels of unbelief. Laughs!
This sounds more like teenage drama looking for fifteen minutes of fame than
anything else.
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Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Meet the Stockton student whose name is Alexa Seary
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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