Subscriber Question Staff asked 7 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?
2 Answers
Katherine Prescott Staff answered 7 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!
Katherine Prescott Staff answered 2 days ago
You can change the spelling of your name in your profile to the phonetic spelling to get Alexa to pronounce it correctly. You may have to play around with the spelling a bit to get her to pronounce it the right way!
I learned this solution thanks to Mai’s comment in the comment chain!
I learned this solution thanks to Mai’s comment in the comment chain!
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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! 🙂
So happy that this tip let me finally fix how Alexa was pronuncing my name. I’m eternally grateful 🙏🏻
So happy that this tip let me finally fix how Alexa was pronuncing my name. I’m eternally grateful 🙏🏻
Will changing the spelling of my name mess up my amazon delivery notices?
Nope, changing the spelling of your name will not impact your Amazon deliveries!
I went to the Alexa app, settings and Profile. Found edit my name. Spelled it phonetically and it defaults back to my real name. What am I missing?
Hi Kaaren – That fix should work — what I would do is try a few different phonetic spellings and see if any of them work!
I’m having the same problems as Kaaren! Alexa keeps calling me “kai-dice” even though my name is pronounced “key-dis”! So I changed my name in the app to “Keydis” and even “Keydiss” but she still keeps saying “kai-dice”! It’s quite frustrating haha