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| Jenna's rough drawing of what Echo and "Attitude" might appear as icons |
I think I have created a couple of
posts in which I refer to “Alexa”. We have two, an echo and one built into the
sound system for the TV.
Jenna had won the echo two and a half
years ago when we had gone to Salem for an open house for the online school
that Roland works for. We kept it over
the fireplace for over a year before Roland purchased a new sound system for
the television. He had a choice of
making it “Okay Google” or “Alexa”. I told him to go with “Okay Google” so the two wouldn’t
both activate at the same time but he chose not to listen to me and go with
Alexa and moved the Echo into Jenna’s room.
But her room is too close and both would activate – at least simultaneously.
We now have the Echo in our room and have an
alarm set to go off at 5:15 each weekday morning. Our room is located right
next door to Jenna’s and so often both will activate (depending on who is
making the request) though there is a four to seven second delay. Usually the information is exactly the same
but sometimes the Echo provides more interesting or need information whereas
the one built into the speaker has attitude.
I kid you not.
Jenna has tried drawing what she thinks in
her mind – the echo is a helpful student (probably kindergarten age as Alexa
had said she was five years in age) while the speaker seems more like a
teenager irritated about being interrupted while she is on her cell phone. There have been times that she has flat out refused
to respond. That isn’t nice. But seems to fit her personality. How can an “Alexa” device feel so much
different from the other. Jenna and I
like Alexa Echo but do not care for Alexa the other.
