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jswinden · 01-10-2017, 01:51 PM

Just for grins, here are four recordings made by my Dot in the living room over the past few days wherein Alexa suddenly awakened to words or noise, but could not determine what was being said. If you open your Alexa app and go to Settings-->History View Requests to Alexa you will see a list of requests that were made. Pick the ones that state, "Text not available. Click to play recording." These are the requests that confused her. I randomly picked four of these and recorded them onto a digital recorder to show you the kind of things that awaken Alexa, but totally confuse her. Not sure if the link below will function, but it is to the MP3 audio file I created.

Audio of Alexa Awakenings

1st Request: An EMS paramedic talking on police scanner
2nd Request: Unknown noise
3rd Request: Police scanner talk, I think
4th Request: Family Guy episode that was playing on my TV

Requests 1 through 3 were obviously difficult to understand, yet none sounds like "Echo". The 4th was easily heard and should have been easily understood, but apparently an Italian voice saying "Hey you!" on a cartoon wakes her up even though "Echo" is never spoken.

01-10-2017, 01:51 PM	#1400
jswinden Nameless Being	Just for grins, here are four recordings made by my Dot in the living room over the past few days wherein Alexa suddenly awakened to words or noise, but could not determine what was being said. If you open your Alexa app and go to Settings-->History View Requests to Alexa you will see a list of requests that were made. Pick the ones that state, "Text not available. Click to play recording." These are the requests that confused her. I randomly picked four of these and recorded them onto a digital recorder to show you the kind of things that awaken Alexa, but totally confuse her. Not sure if the link below will function, but it is to the MP3 audio file I created. Audio of Alexa Awakenings 1st Request: An EMS paramedic talking on police scanner 2nd Request: Unknown noise 3rd Request: Police scanner talk, I think 4th Request: Family Guy episode that was playing on my TV Requests 1 through 3 were obviously difficult to understand, yet none sounds like "Echo". The 4th was easily heard and should have been easily understood, but apparently an Italian voice saying "Hey you!" on a cartoon wakes her up even though "Echo" is never spoken. Last edited by jswinden; 01-10-2017 at 01:54 PM.