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I checked the app, and the last query was when I asked her the weather from earlier this morning.
Must be a bug in the latest update they pushed out.
Yes, although not when things are silent. Once every week or two the Echo misinterprets something as a command and breaks into our conversation with a seemingly out of nowhere response. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's annoying. I can't recall ever having this issue with "Hey Siri" and I don't own a Google Home
We had to disconnect the Google Home because it would go off in the middle of the night.
Currently own a Echo Dot and a Google Home.
This is slightly OT, but a great prank is to use the 'say' application on OS X (there is a ladies' voice option that sounds very similar to Alexa but the name evades me) and hook up the Alexa as a BT speaker. You can also use a sleep before the say command so that you can be away from the computer and have deniability. I did this to my family last April Fool's Day and it was hilarious.
It sure can be a nifty device to live with, but sometimes I pull the damn plug out of the wall. My dwelling isn't exactly an ashram, but to hell if I'm living with that thing monitoring me around the clock.
Yeah it definitely does sometimes. I use "echo" as the wake up word and it certainly has woken up on entirely unrelated words.
Yes, this happens to me on an Echo Dot. The responses I've noticed don't seem to be replaying previous queries but rather completely unrelated queries to the people in our house or our location. It's like a classic "crossed wires" from the old telephone operator. I guess it happens once/twice a month.