Amazon Changes Alexa Trigger Phrase to End Unsolicited Laughter
Amazon changed a trigger phrase for voice assistant to "Alexa, can you laugh?" from "Alexa, laugh," after many reports of spontaneous laughing, it emailed us, a change we also found Thursday. "We are also changing Alexa’s response from simply laughter…
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to ‘Sure, I can laugh’ followed by laughter.” New Jersey schoolteacher James Orlando told us he and his wife were going to sleep when Orlando said, "Alexa, off" to turn off Echo music. “There was a break of silence for a few seconds and then the creepy laugh,” he said.