Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end
The Verge Dominic Preston
Some Echo speakers running Alexa Plus have been stuck saying and singing “lalala” for minutes. The bug keeps popping up in the middle of conversations, and Alexa doesn’t seem to know it’s happening.
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Amazon’s Alexa Plus is having a weird one. Some Echo smart home speakers have been caught looping on “lalala” for minutes at a time, sometimes saying it and sometimes singing it, right in the middle of a conversation with someone using the device.
The reports have been piling up on Reddit over the last few weeks, with complaints coming in as recently as three days ago. And this isn’t tied to just one model. Users say it’s happening across multiple types of Echo speaker.
The unsettling part is how blank the assistant seems about the whole thing. When people ask Alexa about the behavior, it apparently acts like nothing unusual just happened. No awareness, no explanation, just more “lalala.”
There are also videos of the glitch circulating online, including one Android Authority posted to YouTube. Amazon is aware of the problem, according to Android Authority’s report, though the source excerpt doesn’t include the company’s full response.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the kind of bug that makes voice assistants feel less like helpful products and more like haunted appliances. When the box in the corner starts serenading the room for minutes at a time and then denies everything, trust takes a hit fast. Closed systems love to promise polish; sometimes they just deliver a very expensive nursery rhyme.
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