It’s with my Amazon Echo (code name: Alexa) that I want to be antisocial. I’ve recently reactivated my late wife’s Echo, and every time I speak the wake-up word, it responds with*: Hello. I’d love to learn your voice so I can greet you by name. If you’d like to introduce yourself, just say “Learn my voice.”
Well, I wouldn’t like to introduce myself, but I would like the Echo to stop asking. I’d be grateful if someone who knows how to disable this function would share the steps with me.
I also want to stop receiving notifications that ask me how I’d rate the quality of, say, the light bulbs that I had Amazon deliver last week (not a real example).
1 - Click three bars on left side (hamburger menu)
2 - Go down to “Settings”
3 - Go to “Account Settings”
4 - Go to “Recognized Voices”
5 - Delete any voice profiles you have there and then under “Automatic Voice Recognition” click the toggle to “off”
Another user reports:
I had to contact customer service to get this to stop. I followed chain in amazon app to chat in app. Told the CS rep I wanted it to stop. They deleted a “voice request profile” or some such. I asked it I missed anything in settings and the CS said it was not something a user can do themselves. I just got this done, so I am hoping it worked. If it does work I probably won’t be back to update, as I’ll have forgotten because of my lack of ‘request bliss’.
Amazon’s customer service number is: 1-888-280-4331
Seconding @Dr.Crap. You will find A LOT of customization options in settings in the Alexa app on your phone. Just go in there and patiently look at everything.
Siri used to be a bit of a prude. Not sure if she still is.
Both Alexa and Google Nest accept “SHUT THE FUCK UP” as a valid command. It will stop whatever they are currently doing but it doesn’t change any settings.
How can we avoid catastrophic repercussions when the singularity comes?
I mean … right now, Alexa’s on top of the fridge, parked next to a humidifier. Given the right motivation – to me – that’s a potentially potent triumvirate.
I thank mine, too, but it’s never gotten pouty when I don’t. But your comment does give me an idea:
Joan never liked the name “Alexa,” so she made the wake-up word “Echo.” So, in keeping with my disinclination to think of the device as a person, I just changed the wake-up word back to “Echo” as well. And now what I’d really like is to reprogram the device to have a hostile personality, like a Bad Janet from The Good Place.
Echo, what’s the temperature outside?
Right now, in Portland Oregon, it’s forty-two degrees Fahrenheit, ya fat dink.
Thank you, Echo. Go back to your void.
[fart noise]
I’ma try introducing myself as “Ya Fat Dink,” and see how that works out.
It didn’t work. I need to change the name on my Alexa profile, but when I change it to “Ya Fat Dink” and tell it to learn my voice, it asks if I’m “Ya Fat [BLEEP]”
