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I need to change the Alexa Wake Word

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January 10, 2022
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We are new to the “Alexa” world - except for our 24 year old daughter Alexa.

We have multiple Sonos speakers, with our newest being the Sonos Move with Alexa enabled. We thought that we could change the wake word for Alexa on any device. While I love the name “Alexa”, that is our daughter’s name and we really need to change the wake word to “Echo”. Either that or we need to change our daughter’s name :).

Sonos, please help - enable changing the wake word on Sonos speakers.

With thanks,

Sue

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xkelly

Lyricist I

There’s always the option to use Sonos Voice Control instead:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/list-of-voice-requests-for-sonos-voice-control

I use my Sonos One more like an Alexa than a Sonos, if you know what I mean; weather, smart home controls, pause/play, notifications, Ring stuff, etc., so Sonos Controls wouldn’t work for me.

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John B

There’s always the option to use Sonos Voice Control instead:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/list-of-voice-requests-for-sonos-voice-control

I use my Sonos One more like an Alexa than a Sonos, if you know what I mean; weather, smart home controls, pause/play, notifications, Ring stuff, etc., so Sonos Controls wouldn’t work for me.

I still think the best option, if you want Sonos sound quality but full Echo device functionality is to turn off the mic on the One (or buy an SL in the first place). Then use a gen 2; 3 or 4 Echo Dot for the commands.

By using Alexa groups you can make the Dot and One function more or less as a single unit,

Mutti

Hi all,

I have a new gf, and now I’m experiencing the same problem! 😓 I think it is absurd that the man has to bend to the technology and not the opposit.

I know that it is not Sonos will, but Amazon’s, but think I will change the Sonos system to something else.

Hope Sonos, with all the other non-amazon will join together and make some pressures to Amazon to change this behaveure :-(

106rallye

You could choose Google Assistant, but be careful when looking for an new girlfriend ;-)

Mutti

Thank you your hints, but I've configured my home assistant to work with "Amazon" yet, and it took me a lot of time tu tune everything with it, and it took me maybe more time to "tune " the GF... I really would like to avoid to waste all this time and energies 😅

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