# Okay ---I **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833 "2020-03-19T19:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/1 "2020-03-19T19:40:29Z")
While reading the latest news, I muttered “Okay boomer” at some of the latest unspecified idiocy on the news. My Google speaker responded, “I’m sorry I don’t understand that.” Seems about right. Well, it seemed pretty mundane and pointless to me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/2 "2020-03-19T21:06:50Z")
Funny! I was singing something while looking at news feed. My Google said, “looking that up for you” Anything I type in the search bar on Amazon always gets me a “looking in the stock room” message. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/3 "2020-03-19T23:47:50Z")
Hell, my wife sneezed one time and activated\*\* ALexA!!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/4 "2020-03-20T01:49:35Z")
Just last Tuesday, I was at a tutorial evening and, as I was speaking up about something or other, my watch suddenly announced, quite loudly, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that.” Fair took the wind out of my sails… ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/5 "2020-03-20T19:58:15Z")
I listen to audiobooks while I drive, and it seems like every trip, the phone mistakes something for “okay Google” that sounds nothing like it at all. Then I have to fiddle with my phone while driving to get back to the audiobook. I thought I turned the speech recognition off entirely, because I will never use it on purpose, but I guess it turned itself back on again. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/6 "2020-03-20T21:26:57Z")
My biggest problem lately is that my digital assistants are giving me the silent treatment. I finally figured it out yesterday. I suffer from Sirilexia, which I invented. It’s where you keep calling your Apple assistant Alexa and your Amazon assistant Siri. You get silence. You don’t even get a “Are you talking to me?”. I know, it’s a first world problem, but I seem to be always using the wrong name with the wrong device. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/7 "2020-03-20T22:15:52Z")
Happens all the time on my iMac and Siri. I finally turned off Siri. I’d be watching a TV show and suddenly Siri would say “I don’t understand the question.” I’d dismiss Siri by saying “Goodbye.” 20 minutes later, “I don’t understand the question.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/8 "2020-03-20T23:08:11Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > My biggest problem lately is that my digital assistants are giving me the silent treatment. I finally figured it out yesterday. I suffer from Sirilexia, which I invented. It’s where you keep calling your Apple assistant Alexa and your Amazon assistant Siri. You get silence. You don’t even get a “Are you talking to me?”. I know, it’s a first world problem, but I seem to be always using the wrong name with the wrong device. Better than making the same mistake with your various wives and girlfriends, I suppose. They’d give you the silent treatment too, or worse. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i/849833/9 "2020-03-21T05:55:47Z")
Our Garmin GPS unit aka Rita can be voice operated by shouting VOICE COMMAND in her direction. Sometimes MrsRico and I are cruising along discussing food or sex or nothing - and Rita slips into VOICE COMMAND mode. Curious. Rita has only taken us on back alleys a few times so I’m not sure if she’s a perv. How can voice assistants’ deviousness be judged?