I got my first Alexa the moment they added the computer wake word. Using computer as a wake word fucking sucks. When I finally get around to spinning up something open source, I'm gonna try using "Clockmaker" in reference to the SciFi series inspector Dreyfus by Alistair Reynolds
I actually have mine set like that right now! False positives are pretty low for me... except for when I watch Star Trek. Then my device chimes in whenever a character calls for it.
I've been rewatching Discovery, and it's made me learn that they talked to the computer a whole lot more in season 1... the interruptions seemed to drop off significantly after that.
Makes me think of how I always used to wonder what would happen if you had The Clapper connected to your TV when The Clapper commercial came on. Would you keep having to clap to turn your TV back on?
Back in the 90s Mac OS had voice recognition, complete with a wake word. There were a few default actions, and you could write your own Applescripts to customize things.
I remember messing with this in the late 90s. You could set the computer to listen to “computer” just like Star Trek. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to do anything more advance than the demo features because of being a dumb kid but it was neat!