Alexa has just whispered to me - freaked out.

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My Alexa has just whispered to me and I couldn’t understand what it said, I asked her to repeat and she told me there was nothing to repeat. I’ve played it back in the app and it sounded like a male saying “Alexa drop” it’s nobody in our house and we dont use Alexa drop. I have unplugged it but feel (stupidly) frightened by it. My husband is on a nightshift - I don’t think I’ll sleep. My daughter doesn’t seem to think that anyone can just drop in but if it wasn’t that, what was it?

If you whisper she whispers back. I found this out at around 3am when I was whisper singing along on my phone. She thought I said her name so whispered at me. Terrified doesn't come close.

I didn’t whisper and it actually lit up blue, as if I’d given it a command

Out of nowhere one day, ours GROWLED at me! Totally freaked me out!

I won't have them in the house. The whole premise is sinister.

When I asked her to repeat, she said there was nothing to repeat, but it’s definitely there as I’ve listened back to it, although it’s not as clear as my commands, it sounds muffled, and fuzzy. I really wish I hadn’t heard it.

OMG

Someone or some thing must have whispered to her. Are the doors locked? 🫣

It could be your dh using his Alexa app on his phone to drop in on your home device to talk to you? I do this sometimes if my dd is at home and not answering her mobile.

It could be your dh using his Alexa app on his phone to drop in on your home device to talk to you? I do this sometimes if my dd is at home and not answering her mobile.

He doesn’t have the Alexa app - and wouldn’t know how to drop in (neither do I)

This is why I’m freaked out 😩

My Alexa turns on electric blanket for me but very occasionally she just won't do it and I get a bit freaked out by that.

Have you ever seen the Michael Keaton film White Noise 😱

If I ever were unsure that my refusal for an Alexa was right - this thread has cemented my view!! OP, keep it unplugged 😄

No, and please don’t tell me anymore 🙀

Or, far more likely, it was just a random bug.

Building software is a form of engineering, like building bridges.

Thing is, we're really good at building bridges. We've had a lot of practice, thousands of years of it in fact. And yet still, every so often we end up with a bridge that randomly falls down, or has some weird bugs in it like the Millennium bridge by the Tate modern that started swaying because of some weird resonance thing.

In comparison, we've been building software for 70 years or so. We do not have thousands of years of building software, and as a result we as a species are still spectacularly fucking shit at it. So some times Alexa will whisper, or growl at you, and it's not because of an intruder, or a ghost, or anything else other than a coder who turned up on Monday morning with a spectacular hangover and somehow coded something that randomly creeps people out by accident.

Or my favourite personal example, coded something that generated a random 6 letter word to let people log into an estate agents website, and then gave someone from Essex the code SXCUNT

That was a fun phone call.

I actually picked up that DVD in a charity shop and I'm too scared to watch it because one of my colleagues said it freaked out her and her husband really really badly and they normally love that kind of thing

@VimesandhisCardboardBoots as an Essex girl that really made me laugh

@FavouritePJs I hope you're able to settle down

I've always been against having those, then last week I wondered if it would make life easier and then decided I was being ridiculous. That's before even thinking about something like this. Of course I realise there'll be a rational explanation, but...no.

Look in the app and you can listen to the command she heard. She'll have misheard something, nothing to freak out about.

Ours once randomly launched into a rather lengthy "wet fart" soundtrack, on further investigation it totally misheard a conversation I was having with DH about an election 😆.

Mine went off at full blast at 4am one morning,music playing top volume!!

The alexa app should show the history of what has been said!

Mine has done the same thing, whispered something I didn't quite catch. I didn't reaslise I could check the app, but it was a couple of months ago now so too late. I know if you whisper at it, it whispers back to you, but I was alone in the room and not speaking when she/it did it. Like you I was freaked out a bit.

Sometimes Alexa randomly answers unasked questions, but that's the only time its whispered so far.

@VimesandhisCardboardBoots thank you for the explanation and for making me laugh 😆

@Mothership4twoI was alone too with no television on or other noises, that added to the freak out I think.

so I texted my husband and he’s popped home and had a listen and has managed to ascertain the voice is Scottish, which it is, I hadn’t noticed that until he pointed it out, but says it’s definitely interference. He’s obviously given me all of the highly correct logical explanations for it, but he keeps forgetting I have watched The Enfield Hauntings and UnCanny and therefore my mind is made up 🤣. He’s going to stay home for a bit in the hope I’ll calm down and get some sleep.

I ticked myself up on the sofa under a blanket in front of the fire last Christmas, and out of the blue Alexa said night night don’t let the bed bugs bite, that freaked me out,