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My Alexa Pet Peeves and how to fix them

Alexa is a great digital assistant, but it isn’t perfect. Here are a few ways it can get on my nerves and what to do about them, on any Alexa-enabled device (Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, etc).

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Alexa is a great digital assistant, but it isn’t perfect. Here are a few ways it can get on my nerves and what to do about them, on any Alexa-enabled device (Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, etc).

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  1. Cory Chang

    July 13, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    ????????????

  2. Matthew Datcher

    July 13, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    0:22 Thank you!

    • Matthew Datcher

      July 13, 2020 at 6:23 pm

      Also, your editor is a saint.

  3. Greg Hartwick

    July 13, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    For all the people who have someone named ALEXA in the household. Thank you! [according to the 2010 Census there were 9,109 females with that first name]

    • Alexa

      July 13, 2020 at 10:03 pm

      ????

  4. macro deth

    July 13, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    I want those conscripts derezzed on the game grid, Sark. End of line.

    Also get me those language translation files. End of line.

    Don’t forget to pay the DSL service, AOL online and electric bill. End of line.

    End of joke.

  5. Michael Bernhardt

    July 13, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    Put it in a box and re-gifted

  6. Tristan N

    July 13, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    4:50 21 – the meme from 2015

  7. Sha Mun

    July 13, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    I guess you’re blaberring more than Alexa and pathetic video

  8. S M

    July 13, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    I guess you’re blaberring more than Alexa and pathetic video

  9. Giovanni P

    July 13, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    They are useless, absolute trash… I use it in Italian and it can’t even do a simple search… Yeah, it’s dumber than a 1 minute old germ…
    No point in investing in this rubbish that only makes life more stressful.
    I listen to more music; that’s the only benefit I’ve found, but it can’t even reproduce the songs I need to from Spotify. It’s meh not getting to choose songs, only “alexa, next song”, if you’re bored and want a nice song you don’t really remember the title of; or from a specific mood…

  10. Marean

    July 13, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    No 1.dont buy it

  11. Jen MacAllister

    July 13, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    Did you know that Alexa has an unplug feature to where you can throw it into the trash?

    • Noah Zimmerman

      July 13, 2020 at 8:15 pm

      It’s the best feature!

    • Alexa

      July 13, 2020 at 10:02 pm

      Boooooo!!!!!

  12. The KeenTribe

    July 13, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    If it was a man’s voice, it probably wouldn’t talk as much.
    Yes that’s a joke.

  13. Alex Jenkins

    July 13, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    1:25 Why have a smartspeaker in the bedroom at all, if you really *have* to have one in your house anyway?

    • Alfred Edwards

      July 13, 2020 at 8:24 pm

      change the lighting color/ brightness. start a “romantic” playlist at just the right time, etc etc 😉

  14. Celestiah ???? Community ???? Conscious ♊

    July 13, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    Alexa and Hey Google is perfect for people who love to talk and be listened to…. always ????

  15. Jordan LongNight

    July 13, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    Question: why to do when Alexa annoys you.

    Answer: Sell her

  16. kanbak

    July 13, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    If you have the Samuel L Jackson enabled on your echo you should ask him to play rock paper scissors a little funny. Yes a little not clean but that’s kind of to be expected from him.

  17. Thomas Riddell

    July 13, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    No voices for Us in Canada yet 🙁 I want Sam on my Speakers Dam you usa

  18. Streaming Junkie

    July 13, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    I have five of each (Alexa & Google mini) of those damn annoying things. If I only had a nickle for each time they say they can’t find the wifi network even though the router is less than 6 feet from them. argh

    When Amazon and Google stop supporting them, I won’t upgrade. I regret I bought them. I’ll get Z-wave enabled devices next time instead.

  19. LocoPezo23

    July 13, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    Pro-Tip: DDon´t buy one . . . don´t have Problems!

  20. bernard john

    July 13, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    All that antics just to prove a point? Really?

  21. appolospbvxr

    July 13, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    The confirmation noise every time he said ‘Alexa’ was very annoying, please just mute out the confirmation noise and wake word as well next time.

  22. Alexa

    July 13, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    I am watching you????

  23. Nicholas Spencer

    July 13, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    Can they have a second gen amazon Alexa but name it Amazon Alex

  24. Dylan Piro

    July 13, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Unplug Alexa

  25. VT Do

    July 14, 2020 at 12:16 am

    You need a better mic. I’m shocked that a reviewer from CNET would not have the best tech equipment to make their videos. It’s like a Porsche being equipped with a 4 cylinder. Just doesn’t make sense.

  26. asTOLDby VELVET

    July 14, 2020 at 1:17 am

    Hi my iPad keeps saying that it needs to be charged but it is fully charged and won’t turn on. It just show the need to be charged screen

  27. Charles Schneider

    July 14, 2020 at 6:36 am

    Baby Groot also can give you those answers using the free app.

  28. Tristan Goddard

    July 14, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    Follow up command has never worked for me! I’d ask my Alexa do say turn on the light, then once I’d done that I ask her another command, she would think about it, then do nothing… eventually I just switched it off. What they need to do is add string commands, allowing you to ask multiple commands at the the same time without having to stop or saying Alexa between each.

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