"alexa lights" (works 50% of the time)

"ALEXA lights"

"ALEXA TURN LIGHTS ON"

I still love Alexa though, or more accurately, voice assistants in the home. It's just brutally out of date speech recognition and answering.

Always been a mystery why they didn't make it any better in the last 5yrs.

I've long wondered what the Alexa team does all day, but I've had friends who worked at Amazon as devs and I'm pretty sure it's "find as many ways to do nothing as possible".

"You have no active timers."

"Godd@mn you m..."