Laura Labovich and her children, Emerson, 10, left, and Asher, 13, interact with the family's Amazon Echo in Bethesda, Md. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)Several people who own Amazon Echo speakers have reported a strange bug: The Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for apparently no reason. “Having an office conversation about pretty confidential stuff and Alexa just laughed,” Twitter user @DavidSven wrote recently. “In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase 'Alexa, laugh,' ” Amazon said. Some Echo users reported last week that the voice assistant was down for several hours, drawing comparisons to Amazon's Super Bowl commercial, in which the assistant lost its voice.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2018 23:33 UTC