Life has been complicated ever since Alexa Sussman and her parents started using Amazon's Echo and its built-in "Alexa" assistant. I’m taking the laundry down,” human Alexa shouted back. Would you like to buy it?”In the Alexa smartphone app, you can change the Echo's wake word from "Alexa” to something else. Amazon lets users change the wake word to “Echo,” “Amazon,” or, starting this week, “computer.”But many users aren’t aware. “Oh, your name is Alexa, like the Amazon thing?” Alexa Duncan, 33, says she hears all too often these days.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 26, 2017 16:30 UTC