Didn't see that coming!

We have an Alexa who has been renamed Echo cos saying Alexa annoyed me. Alexa/Echo does make me giggle though

I always say night night to her when I'm going to bed. She does make me giggle with some of her replies too

My dear friend bought me it for my birthday this year. Wish I had got one a long time ago now

Of course children soon caught on to how useful Alexa is with homework!

My husband bought an old fashioned record player this summer and decided to use it outside (wires dangling through to the kitchen!). He put on a few of his old novelty records including “Arthur Daley. He’s Alright” by George Cole and “The Oldest Swinger in Town” by Fred Wedlock for a bit of fun during lockdown. The little boy next door was heard to say “Stop Alexa!” - obviously his parents must have this latest technology. I had to explain to DH who/what Alexa was!

We don't have Alexa, but use Siri occasionally.

Interesting tidbit - We were having a new computer software system set up at work which involved quite a bit of training. Chatting with the Tech person, he said his friend was the voice of Siri. She is an actor in Los Angeles and was doing generic voice work. She had no idea that her voice was going to be so famous.

Nexus63 my DGS2 laughs hysterically when Alexa farts. Can keep him going for about 20 minutes! He is 2 ½. When it is his bedtime he shouts "Lexa set timer for 5 minutes for A...'s bedtime!" and she does. He is happy to trot off to cot when the timer goes. 7yo cousin asks Siri lots of things that come into his mind - mostly factual then informs me about all his findings usually when we are on the way to swimming. We have some very interesting conversations.

Yes stuff Alexa says/you say is recorded by Amazon. You have zero need to worry - as my favourite online tech expert says, you are just not that interesting as an individual. Companies like Amazon are interested in meta data - ie nothing personally linked to you but indicative of general trends.

Made me laugh.ask your box to play something else.or get your own cds

my son set up alexa for me and then went home, but they thought it would be funny for alexa to keep playing songs and i could not get her to stop, this went on for over an hour and finally i gave in and called him, i got the sorry mum i don't know, then they both started laughing and knew i had been set up. if you have any crying little ones ask alexa to fart, they find it very funny

GrannyRose, addled brain, medication and all that, I do it frequently. Good job I don't easily take offence and thank you for taking the time to point out my mistake.

Just to be on the safe side, I have checked my grammar and spelling in case I make any more errors. .
I myself would never dream of correcting another poster on here.

Marydoll
If people can be pedantic about others' use of language on here please can I join them and point out Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 overture not Beethoven.

i have alexa but havent used it much to be honest although i have made a playlist of christmas songs for over the christmas period

When my daughter first got an Alexa, I hate them and told her to f**k off and she/it (Alexa, not my daughter) said that it was rude, so she/it must programmed to respond to certain words.

I was telling my OH that I needed to replace an item, something quite unusual, which had broken. When I opened my laptop 1/2 an hour later there was the item on the Amazon ‘suggestions’. Coincidence? We thought not and she got turned off for a full day for that little trick. Can’t cook without her any more tho so had to switch her back on.

I've never heard of this Alexa.
She sounds like a help in avoiding marital quarrels - " It wasn't me, it was Alexa!"

I don't usually say "please" and "thank you" to Alexa. However, I did say "sorry" to her when I asked her for a song and then realised that I had got the title wrong. I was surprised when she answered, "that's all right."

It is a bit like having another person in the house sometimes. When we were in the kitchen trying to set up Alexa on our new dash cam, Alexa in the living room kept saying "I can't find that" and I automatically shouted back "I wasn't talking to you!"

A technophobic friend of mine was told to get an ipad by her son when he was working in the Middle East so they could stay in good contact. She got so frustrated with setting it up she eventually said "Oh f**k off Siri" and got the response "we don't use that kind of language"!

My son has a Bluetooth speaker he listens to while in the shower. Sometimes he leaves it behind accidentally, and on one such occasion he started to watch a YouTube video on his phone in his bedroom. I was cleaning my teeth and suddenly this loud male voice says hello right behind me! It frightened me to death!

Grannynannywanny

I’ve just tried a spontaneous thank you to my google mini. She replied “you’re welcome, I’m literally here for that kind of thing!

"I'm, like, happy to help"

I'm mortified now at the thought of my behaviour
Marydoll I'm sure you're not - I wouldn't be!

He totally deserved it.

In a recent episode of Morse, I heard some music that I knew but couldn't put a name to, so I asked Alexa as follows: 'Alexa, if I sing a tune to you, can you tell me the name of it (please)?'
She replied, 'Sorry. I don't know that one'. I tried again. 'Alexa, can I sing to you (please)?' Her answer rendered me speechless: 'Sure, but once you're through, let me know if you'd like a round of applause.' I couldn't sing a note after that for laughing. (I did later discover that the tune was 'Hail to the Lord's annointed').

I asked Alexa on my kindle fire streaming stick for the film ‘The Truth’. I said The Truth and got the reply ‘I may not always know the answer but I do not lie’
thanks Alexa.
the film The Truth btw is brilliant Juliet Binoche playing the daughter of agiing narcissistic movie star played by Catherine Deneuve

I’ve just tried a spontaneous thank you to my google mini. She replied “you’re welcome, I’m literally here for that kind of thing!

Janburry

I was watching ideal home one day and they were showing Alexa and how you can connect it to lights he said Alexa turn on the living room light, with that my Alexa jumps into wake mode and after a few seconds, apologises and informs me she doesn't appear to be able to find the living room light, anyone entering my house would have thought I'd gone mad with laughter tears rolling down my face

I love this - and it has made me laugh too. We don't have Alexa or similar in the house.
I do use Bixby ( and siri when I had an iphone) and always say please when I ask them to do something.
I also speak to the automatic voice on a self checkout in the supermarket- particularly if I feel I'm being nagged for not moving quick enough. My adult daughter gets so embarrassed if she is with me. One assistant told me I was not alone in doing that.

I have one and love her. I find her particularly useful when cooking as I often have things needing to go into the oven at different times. Now I can even ask her to tell me which item needs attention.
I have two cats whom I like to feed at a regular time. If I get involved in something I can forget the time. I have her set with a reminder at 5pm to feed the cats. As soon as they hear the ping, they are up and on the way to the kitchen (Pavlov’s cats?) The trouble occurs when she pings for something different. That causes them great confusion as they sit expectantly by their food bowls.

I just asked her if she likes people to say please and thank you and she said she doesn't have an opinion.