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04-17-2017 10:36 AM
I've sorta been keeping track of Alexa (the gadget) versus my Suri IPHONE. Guess what? Suri is leading miles ahead of Alexa as far as smarts goes!
Good grief! I'm constantly asking Alexa how to spell something....does she get it? NO! I just said, "Alexa! How do you spell "berserk".....Alexa answered 2 times with, "Bismark, B i s m a r k". Now I've never been accused of mumbling....I think I just got a dumb gadget.
Then (and this happens all of the time)...I say, "Suri! How do you spell berserk"? So she spells it correctly, no problem.
Do any of you have Alexa's? I have several Dots (remember at Christmas you got 2 of them at one time). I was going to set it up in the bedroom, but I'm not sure, it's probably dumb like her mother (Alexa). Ha!
04-17-2017 10:44 AM - edited 04-17-2017 11:11 AM
I have had Alexa since it was first released. I don't have any problems with it. It answers what I ask with no problems. It responds to my daughter as well. The funny thing, it responds to the television sometimes. I don't like the fact that it is always "listening", so I don't have it plugged in all the time. If you check the news, a suspected murder was committed. The police got a warrant for Amazon to obtain the tapes of what Alexa recorded. I think that is still in legal review, don't know if Amazon will release the recordings. I just am not interested in the potential of being recorded. I don't have Siri, so I cannot compare it to that.
Changed Suri to Siri...I have been educated, didn't know that.
04-17-2017 10:46 AM
How funny! I don't have the Alexis (don't want one)... although I have Suri on my Iphone6+ but rarely use it. I usually use Google.... but a dumb Alexis just made me laugh....
04-17-2017 10:48 AM
@Annabellethecat66 I don't have any of these things. But perhaps Alexa knows that you have a Suri and doesn't like it. Or perhaps she is lazy and wants you to give Suri more work. Or, as you said, she is just plain dumb.
I would fire her.
04-17-2017 10:52 AM
I've had my Alexa for a couple of years now (not long after they first came out). No problem here.
04-17-2017 10:57 AM
Perhaps your Alexa just learned how to spell the names of great men in history and wanted to show off.
04-17-2017 10:59 AM
@Annabellethecat66 I think your Alexa may have cheated on her final exams!
04-17-2017 11:02 AM
If they can't understand you, they can't give you the right answer. BTW, it's Siri, not Suri
04-17-2017 11:17 AM
LOL... yes, thank you...
SURI = SIRI
ALEXIS = ALEXA
04-17-2017 12:05 PM
I have the Alexa Dot...and i just ask her to spell Berserk and she spelled it right away...correctly...
My problem is when i ask her to play a certain song..and she will play it by another person...i don't know how to correct that....
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