[ExactoKnight]

"Computer" should be the wake word, and everyone would be happy with that thanks to global, english interoperability in all places and contexts.

But thanks to the hubris of corporate branding and marketing departments we are unlikely to have this universally understandable command usable. Instead to use any light switch every consumer will need to ask what bloody set up the person has...

[djur]

Alexa devices actually have "Computer" as an option. I did it for a while, because I dislike pretending a computer is a person ("Alexa") and I certainly don't want to address a company ("Amazon"). I ended up switching back to "Echo" after I realized that people in my house say "computer" too often for it to work well as a wake word.

[mattigames]

Weak move by Amazon, "OK Computer" would have been so good of an option, also for being a small tribute to Radiohead.

[dkonofalski]

The problem with that is that people use the word "computer" in natural speech far too often to make it useful as a wake word. You'll continually get false positives anytime someone in a sci-fi show says "check the computer" or "computer, tea, earl gray, hot".