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I'm in Bensalem listening and recording aircheck of WAYV. I've heard other stations do this. but come on guys. "On Your radio, Online, or on your smart speaker! Alexa play 95.1 WAYV."
um no guys, no no no and no!
First of all anyone who is listening by their Alexa will get tripped. Second of all, anyone who has an Alexa nearby that will get triggered too... Third it could give the impression that only Alexa is supported.

Why not just say something like: "On Your radio, Online or on your smart speaker! Just say Play 95.1 WAYV."
This way it won't trip anything up and this way the listeners will know no matter which device (Siri, Google Home, Amazon) exactly what to say.
This drive me insane when I hear this stuff.
 
My Alexa gets triggered by everything. Anyone on TV who says that word wakes her up. Once, my Echo Dot said it and woke up the app on my phone! Whenever Johnny or Moira yelled out for Alexis on Schitt's Creek, Alexa asked me WTF I wanted. Years ago, Phil Dunphy on Modern Family said "OK Google" and, since I was still on Android at the time, he woke the phone that was sitting on the couch next to me. In some cases, of course, it's just silly but in other cases, I definitely think this is a feature instead of a bug.

BTW: You can ask Alexa to change her wake-up word. She lets you choose from "Computer" and "Echo." Of course, if you change it, you will spend a month yelling out "Alexa!!! ALEXA!!!!" before remembering that you changed the wake-up word.
 
I just listened to WAYV (via Alexa, in fact) for the first time in a long, long time. Granted I only listened for about 20 minutes but...are they actually (finally) playing the music at its intended speed?! Since at least the late '90s, they were pitching up so egregiously that I really couldn't believe listeners were OK with it.
 
WAYV is blasting in as a "local" tonight up into parts of Central and North Jersey... gotta love summertime atmospherics on full display...
 
JH_Radio said:
I'm in Bensalem listening and recording aircheck of WAYV. I've heard other stations do this. but come on guys. "On Your radio, Online, or on your smart speaker! Alexa play 95.1 WAYV."
um no guys, no no no and no!
First of all anyone who is listening by their Alexa will get tripped. Second of all, anyone who has an Alexa nearby that will get triggered too... Third it could give the impression that only Alexa is supported.

Why not just say something like: "On Your radio, Online or on your smart speaker! Just say Play 95.1 WAYV."
This way it won't trip anything up and this way the listeners will know no matter which device (Siri, Google Home, Amazon) exactly what to say.
This drive me insane when I hear this stuff.
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Yes Yes Yes.. i vocietrack afternoons for a Wyoming station and once did a break with my alexa sitting near me, on purpose.. and said that phrase, hoping id set off peoples alexa's.. dont know if i did, we never heard anything.. but i knew exactly what i was doing.
 
Miguelito said:
My Alexa gets triggered by everything. Anyone on TV who says that word wakes her up. Once, my Echo Dot said it and woke up the app on my phone! Whenever Johnny or Moira yelled out for Alexis on Schitt's Creek, Alexa asked me WTF I wanted. Years ago, Phil Dunphy on Modern Family said "OK Google" and, since I was still on Android at the time, he woke the phone that was sitting on the couch next to me. In some cases, of course, it's just silly but in other cases, I definitely think this is a feature instead of a bug.

BTW: You can ask Alexa to change her wake-up word. She lets you choose from "Computer" and "Echo." Of course, if you change it, you will spend a month yelling out "Alexa!!! ALEXA!!!!" before remembering that you changed the wake-up word.
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If I had Alexa, my word would have been changed to "computer" immediately. Shades of Star Trek. 😂
 
Even when I say my Alexa's name she doesn't answer half the time. We have a love hate relationship. She likes to ignore me. Lol.
 
I also think it's stupid to name a virtual assistant a person's name. It's degrading to anyone named Alexa. I had a student once named Alexa another student said to her hey Alexa play my cleaning playlist. I was not happy about that. The girl was mad. The kid was given a detention for that because the girl was angry.
 
I learned some news today that reminded me of this thread. A couple weeks ago, Amazon released a male voice for Alexa. I thought it was kinda dumb that they didn't unveil a male name to go along with the voice...and then today, I read that they have. Now, when you ask Alexa to change the wake word, "Ziggy" is among the options. I've renamed all of mine Ziggy because they were waking constantly when people on TV were saying words that apparently sound too much like "Alexa." (I mean, what sounds like Ziggy? Jiggy? Figgy?)
 
nkd said:
There always has been an option to rename Alexa in case there’s someone named Alexa in the house
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Yes, but the options were "Echo," "Dot," and "Computer." (Can you imagine yelling out the word "computer" when you want to know the weather?) Now that they've added a male voice, they've added a wake word to match the gender.
 
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