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Re: Echo...
@elizabethv: I don't use Alexa/Echo, but I've definitely sworn at/used inappropriate language at digital voice assistants when I've been frustrated that they can't understand me.
I'm not proud of that fact. It just is. ;)
afwriter
8/29/2017 10:17:08 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Echo...
@Joe, Nothing is more frustrating than when the Echo either doesn't understand you are just won't listen. I have unplugged it a few times out of pure frustration.
afwriter
8/29/2017 10:18:15 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Echo...
Our household was one of the first couple thousand to have the Echo and my kids (and myself) are still trying to figure out all of Alexa's quirks.
dlr5288
8/30/2017 1:24:02 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Echo...
Yeah it really is the parents responsibility! Kids soak in everything and don't know the difference in communication a lot of the time.
elizabethv
8/31/2017 8:09:08 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Echo...
@Joe - if you've only ever sworn at digital voice assistants, I think you're ahead of the game. I swear at computers without any kind of voice assitant all the time. My mother-in-law created an entire language so she could swear at her sewing machine in front of the kids. Then her kids learned the language, and use it to swear in front of our kids. (I can't for the life of me get this language down.) I thinking swearing at inanimate objects is just something we tend to do, and I doubt kids today will be any different as they grow.
elizabethv
8/31/2017 8:11:05 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Echo...
@afwriter - That's awesome that you were one of the first! I still have my doubts about the whole thing, but overall I enjoy it way more than I worry about it. And I'm told all of the time that we aren't supposed to let our fears run our life anyway, so I guess we're moving in the right direction. Though a required password before adding things to the list would be nice.... Scratch that, they'd hear the password and it would never matter anyway. I guess I'll just keep ignoring the desire for "cookies" on my grocery list.......
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