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So the product is named "iPhone" but you ask it questions by calling it "Siri"? You don't buy a Cortana either, you buy a product named "Windows Phone" (?). Wh

So the product is named "iPhone" but you ask it questions by calling it "Siri"? You don't buy a Cortana either, you buy a product named "Windows Phone" (?). What's odd to me is that Alexa is way more common name for humans than Siri is. I wonder what false positives will do for households with a human Alexa.

joezydeco 12y ago
But why not use "Echo" as the wakeup word, or name the product "Alexa", then? I'm not considering the iPhone/Siri example the same. Siri came much later after iPhone and is not the primary mode of iPhone operation.
- LLWM 12y ago
  Probably because "echo" is too common of a sound as a component of other words.
  - joezydeco 12y ago
    Example?
    - puredemo 12y ago
      ecological
      - joezydeco 12y ago
        If the recognition algorithm works the way I believe it does, it's looking for silence before the keyword, indicating it's the start of a question and "Alexa" is the subject: e.g. "Alexa, how many people live in Germany?" and not "I should talk to Alexa about ordering ten new televisions." Can't think of a lot of sentences that start with "ecological".
        puredemo 12y ago
        yeah, I was half joking. That being said, I think you can name the echo whatever you want. Maybe the people in the commercial just chose "Alexa"
        joezydeco 12y ago
        The system default is "Alexa". Says so right on the web page.