It’s creepy to think that Amazon can access and listen to everyone’s private query data from their Alexa Echo devices. In fact, Amazon employs thousands of employees worldwide to go over these Echo recordings and transcribe them to improve Alexa as a whole.

There’s only one destination for all these recordings: the cloud. Everything you say is recorded after triggering the wake word Alexa, Computer, Ziggy, or Echo. If you ask Alexa, “are you recording me?” it will tell you that it saves and sends your voice recordings back to Amazon. Ask Alexa if it’s recording you or your conversation. This is followed by a short “Tee hee,” a creepy and unusual way to laugh.Īlexa has other ways of responding to this question, such as in the video below, which is also unusual, to say the least.Ĥ. If you ask Alexa to laugh or if it can laugh, the AI replies simply by saying it can. If you want to know what level of scary this particular line of questioning would give you, ask Alexa yourself. What may be scary for you, may not be scary for someone else.īut there’s no going about it. Just don’t forget about it, so you don’t scare yourself instead (like one reviewer below). If you set it at the perfect time, you can make Alexa play the frightening screaming sound effect to scare an unsuspecting family member or guest. With this skill, Alexa will ask you to set the timer to X seconds or X minutes for when the scream should be played, just like in this video.

Another spine-chilling command you can ask Alexa to do is use the Spooky Scream skill.

Alexa play spooky sounds