Subscriber Question Staff asked 3 months ago
My name is Evie, short for Evelyn and rhyming with “heavy.” Alexa insists on calling me what she pronounces as “EEvie” with a long first E. Is there a way to correct this?
1 Answers
Katherine Prescott Staff answered 3 months ago
I wish I could be helpful to you on this — and you are definitely not the first person to email me with the same issue — but unfortunately I don’t know of a way to correct Alexa’s pronunciation of users’ names. Amazon really should create functionality to allow users to teach Alea how to say our names.
I’ll update this post if I learn of anything like this!
I’ll update this post if I learn of anything like this!
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I want Alexa to call me by my nickname that everyone uses, but she will only call me by my full first name. If you find a fix for this please let me know. Thank you
I definitely will!
My name is spelled Mai but it’s pronounced like the month of May so I just changed the spelling in my profile and now she says it right. This should work for you Patricia, just enter the name you want to use. Evie just try playing around with the spelling till she says it correctly. It’s worth a shot.
That is so smart!!
Just yesterday I decided to change the spelling of my name in the app to “Evvie” and it worked! I am really happy that Alexa now knows who I really am–even if she can’t spell my name! I wish I’d seen Mai’s solution earlier, but all’s well that ends well. Thanks to Katherine and Mai!
So so happy to hear that! Yay! 🙂