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I want some YouTube tech channel to test this out and see if this story by Amazon is bullshit or not. Have a private-sounding conversation and intersperse it with a sudden nonchalant, 'hey, alexa visited me today and...' and then keep talking and then 'I really want to send a message to these students, you know and...' and so on and so forth.

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I think it's decently plausible if your Alexa hears you, but you don't hear your Alexa. So you continue on your conversation, and you say enough to keep progressing the flow.

I would assume any failed speech recognition attpempts are recorded so Amazon can have a human look at and classify them, but at the very least they probably keep logs, so they should have this information when debugging. Maybe we'll get a more detailed postmortem later.

Not a test, but obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMRI-YDHT2I

When the episode was aired there were numerous reports of the show triggering Alexas and Google Homes of the viewers.

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