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Alexa Records Voice During Burglary, Leading to Arrest of 9-Year-Old
Press Herald ^

Posted on 07/27/2017 12:18:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Police say the boy eventually confessed to breaking into his neighbor's home 3 times.

Police in Massachusetts say a 9-year-old boy is facing breaking and entering and larceny charges after a neighbor recognized his voice from a recording made on her voice-activated smart device.

The Gloucester Times reports police responded to a home in Gloucester Tuesday after a woman reported several items stolen, including an iPhone and an Amazon voice assistant.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
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1 posted on 07/27/2017 12:18:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Hmm, steal at least two items that can track you. Smart kid.


2 posted on 07/27/2017 12:53:41 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: nickcarraway

I have alexa on my Kindle Fires and also have 2 Echo Dots. I’ve had them for a while and have no idea how this woman was able to record this boys voice. I cant even record my own voice by asking Alexa to do it. How did this woman figure this out and how did Alexa know to record the boy’s voice?


3 posted on 07/27/2017 1:01:29 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
...how did Alexa know to record the boy’s voice?

If the boy is Black or Latino, Alexa is Racist, if Muslim, Zionist.

4 posted on 07/27/2017 1:09:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Blue Highway

Your spoken questions are recorded. Check your history in your alexa app to delete


5 posted on 07/27/2017 1:34:54 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: nickcarraway

“It’s fun to do bad things.”


6 posted on 07/27/2017 1:36:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: UB355

What about those that have a Echo or Echo Dot? There is no app to speak of for these.


7 posted on 07/27/2017 1:54:01 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Go on the Alexa app, and find the last few things you asked it to do. It will play back your voice and ask if the device did what you wanted. This is a quality control / product improvement feature. You can erase these recordings...supposedly. I personally don’t care if there’s a recording of me saying “Alexa! Weather!” on some Amazon server out there, but that’s me.

It does this only when it hears the “wake word”. Most use “Alexa”. We have two of them in separate rooms, and the other one we call “Echo”.

We have noted that they will wake if they hear something like their “wake words”, and record for a couple seconds...but will stop if they don’t “understand” what follows. For example, the movie “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” contains a character saying “I like stories.” Our “Alexa” interprets that as “her” name and wakes up. The character then says “tell me a story”, which is one of the things the Alexa will do. Twice now, watching that movie, we have been reduced to laughter by our Dot suddenly beginning to tell a story!

So, point being: this kid probably said something that sounded like “alexa” to the dot, and it began recording.


8 posted on 07/27/2017 2:39:41 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Blue Highway

Yes, the Amazon Alexa app is for the Echo and Echo Dot.


9 posted on 07/27/2017 2:40:34 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: ExGeeEye

“I’ll axe ya a question”


10 posted on 07/27/2017 2:42:34 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Climate Change: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives and the gravy train that never ends.)
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To: ExGeeEye

I just thought the app was for if you install Alexa on your smart phone or tablet. I didn’t know you needed an app for the standalone Echo or Dot other than to do the initial setup and then just delete the setup app.


11 posted on 07/27/2017 5:08:49 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

All the app on a portable device does is control the one in your house. For example if you say “Alexa, add salt to the shopping list”, it will appear on your phone app. If you type it into the phone app and later say “Alexa, read the shopping list”, it will read back not only what you told it by voice but also what you added from your phone.

Once when mine was new, I thought I could use the app to play music on my phone. Turns out, from across town, I made the one in the house start playing. It was in the wee hours, and I got a “what are you doing” call from my sleepy grumpy wife!


12 posted on 07/28/2017 12:38:44 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: ExGeeEye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk

A very funny Alexa SNL skit

ODESSA!!


13 posted on 07/28/2017 7:42:43 AM PDT by freedomlover
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