To those who have Alexa... do the Alexa adverts activate your Alexa?

[TwatCat]

Just that really.

It’s only ever happened once, last week. Alexa was playing an advert on the radio. She just lit up and went back to normal.

I’ve had Alexa for over a year.

My child’s name is Alex too but still no issues

Everything activates it. Watching Grey's Anatomy with the character of Alex was relentless. You will get used to shouting "I didn't ask you" at the bloody thing. Ours is unplugged for good now.

I don't know but our Alexa turned herself off this morning. I left it on radio when I went on the school run, came home to nothing.... did it know nobody was home?! I don't trust Alexa....

I've got the Apple HomePod and every now and then something sets it off and he says something random but there's no "hey Siri" adverts on tv.
But just saw an Alexa advert and wondered if it knows to ignore those adverts or not.

The new Google advert sets mine off, I've had to turn it off.

Yep the new What's the Weather one sets it off. It also gets set off by the radio adverts when I have it bluetoothed to a speaker in another room.

Ours doesn't and one sits on top of the TV speaker.

You'd think they could do some sort of update where it recognises that it's their own advert not to set it off.

Ours don't and we have one next to the TV.

We changed the trigger word on ours to “computer”. Now she replies to Star Trek characters on TV, but we find it quite amusing.

Our wake word was Computer but it was far less sensitive to that than Alexa. Perhaps because it gets used more in conversation?

I wonder can you change the "hey Siri" to something else. I hate saying "hey". It's just not something I ever say.

No, I have Alexa and the advert hasn't set her off. Listening carefully, the advert asks "Lexa" rather than Alexa. I've just yelled 'Lexa' and, no response.

Mine went mental at an episode of Motherland when one of the characters was using her Alexa. I had to unplug it.

Ours goes blue but doesn’t talk.

Someone saying "history" on TV the other day set off my "hey Siri" thing.

Can you not rename the Alexa if you want? I'm sure a friend did that as she has a DD called Alexa.

I watched the South Park episode about Alexa yesterday funnily enough, I even turned the volume up to try and get my Alexa to repeat.
It did trigger a few times but nothing registered.
(The episode deliberately trolls Alexa and google)

No ours doesn't at all. I don't know why not because it's next to the tv.

Mine don't, but I was round a friend's yesterday and theirs do. They've got a fancy sound system while I use the TV's own speakers, so there might be a sound-processing thing involved.

There is a way to remove frequencies from the advert so it doesn't trigger recognition in the robot-in-a-can, which is what they usually do, but perhaps the fancy audio puts them back?

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes completely different words set off the blue light and the noise it makes when it lights up. I fell asleep with the TV on the other night, something must have set it off and it started talking then played some odd music, scared the crap out of me. Scared my dh even more when I yelled at her to stop!

I think it's the word "history" that sets off Siri. There's other random things that have set it off too, but I can never work out what after I've said it.