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This brings up an interesting question. If I say "Alexa, call the police!" or "Alexa, I need an ambulance!" will anything happen? It doesn't officially say it c
by guscost 10y ago
This brings up an interesting question. If I say "Alexa, call the police!" or "Alexa, I need an ambulance!" will anything happen? It doesn't officially say it can be used to request emergency response and I'm scared to try it.
I wonder if they've received a lot of these requests and/or if they have an emergency team on standby.
- netsharc 10y agoI don't think anything will happen, although people can write their own "plugins". It's already a speaker/microphone, why not make it a speakerphone; if you slipped and broke something and can't even crawl to the phone, saying "Alexa, call an ambulance!" and being able to communicate with the rescuers would be helpful. Sadly it's not in their spec to be used as that, yay for closed hardware! Alternatively, Amazon should have a log of music you asked it to play. The suspect is named Bates. If you were being chased by him, could you yell "Alexa, play music by The Police!" followed with "Alexa, play the soundtrack of Bates Motel!"? You'd be dead but at least there'll be a hint for the police somewhere in the cloud. "Alexa, play James Blunt!" "Alexa, play Bates Motel!" "Alexa, play The Killing Hand by Dream Theater!"
- smileysteve 10y agoThis would be of interest for the elderly, "help, I can't get up" with an omnidirectional microphone instead of a fragile, not waterproof, awkward beeper that you carry everywhere