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'Alexa' as a trigger word...

I'd be curious how it responds if 'Alexa' is contained in the actual music its playing, this immedieatly came to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downeaster_Alexa

I'm not an expert in voice recognition, this might just be a silly thing that has been long addressed...

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More than likely the noise cancelling is also cancelling out the music it's playing, so I think it wouldn't matter.

Several years ago I was playing with a USB speakerphone module from Yamaha that had hardware noise cancelling. It was so good that even with loud music playing via the device the party on the other end only heard my voice and it was crystal clear. It was cancelling out the music totally.

hopefully they let you change that "magic" word (alexa seems too common)... and more importantly, I hope that it doesn't send any data online unless that word was recognized locally with a very low false positive rate

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