Alexa - anyone else?

grentuu

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First let me say, I have an Amazon Dot, and I love it. From playlists to appointments, trivia questions and timers, its great.

But on the phone it is driving me nuts.

For the Dot to work, I quite clearly have to say 'Alexa.' Then it works perfect;y. The phone on the other hand responds to, well I don't know what? If the TV is on and someone says, 'exactly'it opens. But 99% of the time I have no idea what it responded to. It comes on about 15 times a day to no really recognisable 'Alexa' command.

Anyone else?
 

joshiameya

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First let me say, I have an Amazon Dot, and I love it. From playlists to appointments, trivia questions and timers, its great.

But on the phone it is driving me nuts.

For the Dot to work, I quite clearly have to say 'Alexa.' Then it works perfect;y. The phone on the other hand responds to, well I don't know what? If the TV is on and someone says, 'exactly'it opens. But 99% of the time I have no idea what it responded to. It comes on about 15 times a day to no really recognisable 'Alexa' command.

Anyone else?
Yes I have seen that too , it isn't as helpful as assistant by Google
 

FuriousK

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I have had Alexa pop up for no apparent reason too. (And on a few occassions, NOT pop up to "Alexa")
Seems strange that there's no Voice Training for it (unless I'm missing it?)
Anyway, the funniest one happened today: I sneezed - and boom - Alexa
 

wilpang

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Hi guys,

I have Alexa switched off but on occasion Google Assistant switches on when nothing has been said, maybe that is the same issue as OP but it's not 15 times a day. It's more like why did my screen come on situation...