Alexa app on iOS in 2018, displaying its -Settings-Change Your Wake Word- screen, showing the -Wake Name Choices- menu, with the -Amazon- choice highlighted.
Can you change Alexas name? You can indeed change the name that the Amazon Alexa enabled speakers respond to when you say it. So the current choices are, “Alexa…,” “Amazon…,” “Computer…,” “Ziggy…,” and “Echo…” You say this name when you want the voice assistant to run a command or answer a question. It’s how you “get her attention,” so to speak.
You can now change the wake word name with a voice request. Let’s say your speaker currently wakes up to ‘Alexa’. Then use the following commands to change this word to one of three other choices as follows.
She then responds with the following, “Okay, you can call me <new name> on this device in a few seconds.”
The name setting is not customizable beyond these four choices (Alexa, Amazon, Computer, Echo). At least, not yet.
You might wish to change this name for a particular Echo speaker device. Why? Because speakers with different names don’t all respond at once when you call with the same name. Thus this name is speaker-specific. So if you have multiple echo speakers around, you could assign each one a different trigger word
Following are instructions on how to set this watch name for a specific Alexa device.
First, we find the app on home screen page three on our iOS tablet, as shown next.
You should then get the Alexa app Home screen, similar to the picture displayed next.
Then, this brings up the app’s main menu.
So this brings up the Settings screen.
In this demo, we’re going to modify the Bedroom Dot speaker’s wake word. So, when we tapped that device on the screen above, we got the Device Settings following screen back. We then scrolled down to reveal the wake word option.
You should then see the Change your Wake Word screen, as follows.
Then, you can touch either area.
After touching, that menu then expands as shown next.
So we’re changing our living room speaker to Amazon. So, we tap the Amazon item on that menu.
This returns us then, to the Change Your Wake Word screen. But now, the current name is Amazon.
Then after a short pause, the Wake Word Changed window appears.
The app then returns to the Device Settings screen. Your Alexa speaker should then respond to her new name; Amazon in this demo.
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