Owners of Amazon's voice-enabled assistant Alexa have complained that sometimes, the device starts laughing spontaneously and prompts owners to feel uncomfortable, especially at night.
Sharing their troubles on Twitter, some users bemoaned Alexa's "creepy laugh," while others referred to the bot's unexpected voice messages when its owners were peacefully lying in their beds.
Developers, meanwhile, touted Alexa as Amazon's cloud-based voice service available on tens of millions of Amazon devices and those from third-party device manufacturers.
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According to them, "with Alexa, you can build natural voice experiences that offer customers a more intuitive way to interact with the technology they use every day."