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Originally Posted by Catlady
Exactly. They need to allow imprecise voice commands...
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I run a skill called Brown Noise at night to help me drown out neighborhood noise so I can sleep better. I typically turn it off in the morning by saying, "Alexa, stop." That works well. I have a grandniece named Alexis, so I occasionally get mixed up and use "Alexis" rather than "Alexa". This morning I said, "Alexis, stop." The Echo Plus lit up, thought a few seconds, then continued playing the skill. After the third time it finally dawned on me I was saying "Alexis" rather than "Alexa", so I then said, "Alexa, stop." That worked. You would think the two should work interchangeably. After all, I quite often have Alexa go into a long winded discussion about nonsense when she hears a word similar to "Alexa" on TV, even words that are not nearly as close to sounding like it as does "Alexis."
And BTW, I grabbed my iPad and opened the Alexa app hoping to stop the skill, but the newest interface is so crappy I could not quickly find out how. Fortunately I figured out I was using "Alexis" by mistake. The Alexa app looks like it was organized by hoarders--stuff piled here and there with no particular order making things difficult to find.