| VitroBahllee said: Amazon has come out an officially repeated the FACT that these things can't call 911, but these stories persist. A sheriff's office even kept insisting they were called by an Echo: THEY DON'T DO THAT! So: worry about them listening 24/7. I'll worry about credulously believing internet tripe. Was the battered wife's name Alexa or Ok, Google in all these supposed instances? Even if they could call 911, they wouldn't trigger without their key words. |
Removed it from the op. Can you link a phone to an echo for speaker talk? Because I read that Apple Siri will call the cops but Google voice recognition won't.
"However, according to Amazon, the virtual assistant is not capable of dialing 911. "Alexa calling and messaging does not support 911 calls," a company representative told BuzzFeed News. The phrase "call the sheriff" would not trigger a call to emergency services via Alexa, the representative said. Apple's voice-controlled assistant Siri supports 911 calling via iPhones, whereas the Google Home smart speaker does not."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/alexa-call-911?utm_term=.yl5OrKb0R#.bfLpwanvk
So it could be plausible that perhaps her iphone called the cops which might have been linked to the echo. So the echo didn't but it still doesn't rule out other devices such as an iphone.
