Amazon’s intelligent voice assistant Alexa, which powers the Echo devices is for no particular reason, laughing randomly. Customers have been describing the laugh as “bone chillingly creepy”. The company is currently trying to fix the glitch.
Some users took to Twitter to report the issue and stated that Alexa started laughing, without issuing any command. Many of them shared their experience and videos online of the laugh as well.
A Twitter user @DavidSven said, “Having an office conversation about pretty confidential stuff and Alexa just laughed. Anybody else ever have that? It didn't chime as if we had accidentally triggered her to wake. She simply just laughed. It was really creepy.” Another user stated, “@amazonecho alone in the dark kitchen, with no trigger, a sudden creepy laugh emerges and freaks out owners #justwrong. Replay.”
Another Alexa owner wrote, "Lying in bed about to fall asleep when Alexa on my Amazon Echo Dot lets out a very loud and creepy laugh... there’s a good chance I get murdered tonight.”
Amazon acknowledged the problem and mentioned in a statement that the outbursts are due to its smart speakers hearing a wrong order. Amazon said, "In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase 'Alexa, laugh. To fix the issue, Amazon is disabling that command and changing the trigger phrase to "Alexa, can you laugh?"
Recently, Amazon announced that it will be introducing voice commands for the Android version of Alexa, its voice assistant as well.
The implementation of voice integration into its Android app for Alexa implies that users can speak directly to their handset to perform a number of functions such as to play music, ask for directions and trigger Alexa skills.
Earlier, Amazon introduced select voice functionality to its mobile shopping app, while forgoing the functionality for the Alexa app until now. It also announced plans to create a "mobile accessory" development kit, which is expected to make it easy for hardware companies to build Alexa into their wearable products such as headphones and smartwatches with minimum investment in hardware or integration efforts.
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