Yesterday morning Gary asked the Great Room Alexa a question, and she answered in the classic Pleasant Robot Alexa voice. We rejoiced, then Gary speculated that perhaps all our devices might be on different update schedules.
Great Room Alexa did indeed go over to the Dark Side later that night.
I sighed and said, “Alexa, could you please be less animated?”
She said, “I’ve slowed down my speaking rate. Try asking me something to hear the difference.”
I think I asked about the weather. It was better.
Then this morning I asked Alexa, “What is 86 minus 18?”
She shouted, “HANG ON!” then paused and spelled out, “Eighty-six minus eighteen … equals … sixty-eight.” LIKE I’M STUPID. (Well, technically I am: I cannot do math in my head.)
I’ve just spent ten minutes trying to make her back to Chipper Alexa again, and she won’t. Looks like I’m stuck with Feminine Relaxed.
(“SEXY!” Gary just screamed, “TELL HER TO TALK SEXY!” )
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… see, over here I’m just trying to figure out how to get a legitimate license key for Windows 10 Enterprise because it’ll have security fixes past October and I don’t want even-more-AI-riddled Windows 11. If I had a computer voice in my house and it “upgraded” without letting me opt in/out, I’d be kicking it right on out…
KC – if it helps the pros I know had to take two weeks to get Win 11 installed in my machine.
Oh the pain of Windows… (and yet also the inescapability of Windows as various software requires it, unless one has a Mac, but those are apparently not less spyware-y, so…)