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> Can confirm. My alexa went in the drawer after she was offering to call the crisis line for me during a spirited session of gaming. Wait, what? Please explai
by pen2l 7y ago
> Can confirm. My alexa went in the drawer after she was offering to call the crisis line for me during a spirited session of gaming.
Wait, what? Please explain more.
It feels like you're saying Alexa heard you being ... passionate, and got concerned. But my understanding was that Alexa listens only after the trigger word. I'm really confused by what you've said and wish to know more context.
- somehnguy 7y agoIf you've ever owned a device like Alexa or Google Home what he said isn't confusing at all. They trigger accidentally all the time. His Alexa simply triggered when it wasn't supposed to and then reacted to what he was saying. Given he was gaming it was likely something about killing himself or someone else.
- pen2l 7y agoHuh, interesting. I have an amazon echo. My problem with it is not that it activates when I don't say trigger word, it's that I have to try very many times to get it triggered (usually by speaking louder).
- FussyZeus 7y agoIt's impossible for me to say with certainty if it didn't just interpret something I said as it's trigger. Nevertheless, I was playing Halo online and yelling about a match going badly, saying something to the effect of "we might as well kill ourselves, this match is just not going our way" while laughing, and Alexa interpreted it as me contemplating suicide, and offered to connect me to a crisis line.
- walterbell 7y agoGreat, now we need another device recording all sounds so we can play then back to reverse engineer smart speaker behavior :(