Here’s a sily Alexa trick.
Use the Alexa app to set the language to something other than English, say, French.
Ask Alexa a question. It will respond in French.
Use the Alexa app to set the language to US-English.
Say, “Alexa, repeat that.”
Alexa will repeat the French response, but using the US-English speech synthesizer, which means it will be speaking French words with a horrible American accent.
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
How about the less stupid trick, to get Alexa to speak English in a sexy(?) French accent?
Or type French words in Microsoft Word and have Microsoft Zira read it.
Aren’t you Microsoft fellas required to “eat your own dog food” after all?
But that’s not as funny because it’s not Alexa doing the speaking.