> That's trivially fixable. You can rename her to "Echo", "Amazon", or "Computer". In my experience, this just changes the times that it accidentally triggers.

> That's trivially fixable. You can rename her to "Echo", "Amazon", or "Computer". In my experience, this just changes the times that it accidentally triggers. It doesn't actually reduce how often it happens. Our triggers for random crap all the time, both when we say stuff that sounds like "Alexa" and for completely indecipherable reasons. We actually have two of them in our house, and only one regularly goes of at the wrong time. I thought it might be defective, so I swapped them, but then the other one started doing it. It's location-dependent in our house, so it must have to do with the acoustics or something. Regardless, it's annoying, and the less technical family members are far less tolerant of this kind of stuff than I am. All that said, I still agree that the article goes overboard in exaggeration. Overall I like my Echos, and I think they work pretty well most of the time. There's a lot of room for improvement, but it is a new product.