Woman constantly sets off 'Alexa' and 'Siri' devices at work due to unusual name

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Amazon and Apple products.She has been the butt of the jokes since Apple introduced its personal assistant function, Siri, in 2011.READ MORE: People left baffled as women told to 'treat smelly vaginas with garlic'But she couldn't believe it when Amazon released its own human-like bot, the Amazon Echo - and called it Alexa in 2014.Working in a restaurant in her early 20s, Alexa was constantly faced with customers laughing at her name and giving her commands like a machine.Now working in pharmaceutical marketing, Alexa says the jokes have died down and she now thinks her name is "cool".Alexa, who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, said: "I like my name - it's like a trademark."But I'm constantly setting of people's Alexa's in their homes when they say my name in meetings.

I feel terrible when it's a client call and they are all embarrassed."I thought sharing my surname with Siri was cool as a kid.

When Alexa came out it went a little crazy and got a little annoying. Now I use it as an icebreaker. The odds of sharing my name with Alexa and Siri are pretty crazy."Alexa says people are always quick to realise the connection with her first name but don't always pick up the 'Siri' link until she says her name out loud."People don't twig the Siri link at first," she said. "As a server in the restaurant, I'd get tables messing with me."I go over to introduce myself and they'd laugh and say - 'I have one of those'. "When they'd ask for things they would say - 'Alexa, get me this'.

I still get that joke." Alexa now uses her name as an icebreaker and sees it as a positive thing. She said: "It's quite fitting now I work in social media marketing.