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Re:Amazon Echo Released by nogridbag on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:36AM (#9765349)
There's one benefit to having both Echo/Alexa. When I have guests over and their fascinated by Echo it's much easier to have a conversation about it using the word "Echo" - otherwise they'd trigger Alexa using the wake word every other sentence..

It's also handy when Alexa is accidentally triggered (like one time when I was watching a youtube video). I whisper to my wife "Don't talk Echo is listening!" :)

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Re:Amazon Echo Released by cobrophy on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:38PM (#9765783)
Is there any way to change it?

I imagine if your name was Alexa (or even Alex) or had a close friend with that name you could also get a lot of false positives.

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Re:Amazon Echo Released by genericuser on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:49PM (#9765859)
You can easily change it to Amazon if you do not want it to be Alexa. However that is your only other option.
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Re:Amazon Echo Released by mikeflynn on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:52PM (#9765877)
You can change it, but the only other option is to have it respond to "Amazon."
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Re:Amazon Echo Released by pbreit on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:52PM (#9765876)
The only other current option is "Amazon".
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Re:Amazon Echo Released by genericuser on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:54PM (#9765894)
I have this problem with the PS4s wake word being Playstation quite frequently.
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