A woman who shares her name with the tech devices Alexa and Siri says she constantly sets them off during online meetings when clients say her name. Alexa Seary, 27 - whose surname is pronounced Siri - shares her name with the popular Amazon and Apple products.
She has been the butt of the jokes since Apple introduced its personal assistant function, Siri, in 2011. 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”.
