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Originally Posted by ApK
"Echo" is the phonetic for "E." I figured it would be pretty common in ham just like in military radio, no? (I'm a licensee, but I never was very active.)
To be fair to her (Alexa, or Echo, or Amazon, or whoever) I, too, sometimes think I hear someone call my name when nothing like it was said.
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"Echo" is the international phonetic for the letter "E", but I rarely listen to HF frequencies (160-10 meters) where hams actually give their callsigns phonetically. Propagation on the HF bands is pretty bad right now, almost non-existent. I mostly listened to the police/fire scanners, and "Echo" is rarely spoken there as public service folks use a different phonetic alphabet.
I wouldn't compare our brain trying to interpret sounds to the way Alexa does. Our brains are a quantum leap to the google power ahead of Alexa's technology. She is likely unsure of what was muttered, if anything, so lights up and starts trying to hear.
But the important thing I'm noticing about Alexa and her hearing is that loud noises tend to awaken her. Noises that are not even close to sounding like words, syllables, phonetics, etc. If static awakens her, then something is definitely flawed within her FW or perhaps even HW sensors.