As a Glaswegian I would not do either accent, Alexa would be launched out of the window.

That wasnt angry boomer. Thats the tone of a normal conversation in Scotland 😂

I'm Scottish but her reaction to being told to do it in an English accent was hilarious.

Laughed so hard at this, sooo funny. 'You just hate Scottish people, you cow'🤣🤣🤣

The funniest thing is her "English" accent is really bad. It sounds like an American trying to fake a cockney accent quite badly, and yet Alexa still understood that more than the Glaswegian. Talk about an insult! haha.

What a patient woman, Alexa was lucky to survive that encounter without being smashed to pieces 😂

Her English accent sounded more Australian 🤣

The same with the Geordie accent. An accent in the north east of England.

My curiosity got the better of me so I searched for the song she was after, she should be thankful that alexa couldn't find it 😂😂

Dana is pronounced Dahna - rhymes with Obama 🙂 You will never hear the word 'cow' said with more feeling and venom than that, at the end! 😂100% Scottish!! Proud! 😇

The pay-off is brilliant. Certain Scottish accents are fine with Alexa, with east coast usually OK. Then again, I'd never have one of those things in my house.

I'm welsh and have those arguments regularly so can definitely say it be true with the Scottish

Alexa play purple burglar alarm

I can confirm Alexa and all voice bots like talk to type ABSOLUTELY hate the Scottish accent. 😂 I have had many fights with my Alexa.

We moved from Scotland to England when I was a kid. My mum still has a very strong accent. She thinks Alexa hates her and is misunderstanding her on purpose!

I don't think she said oh christ English because of any rivalry I think it was more that she finds the accent hard to do which plays out coz she sounded Australian. I'm from the Midlands in England and Alexa finds it hard to understand my accent too

The struggle is very real King,it's a goddam nightmare 😂

She did that very well,.. that was northeast London accent.!!!

Im English with Scots family, hugely impressed by her accent lol. Such a shame to have to dumb down the scots accent tho, its one of the best in the world!

Same issues with this Scottish family and Google Assistant. Every single day! I struggle doing an English accent but it usually works doing a generic American one. Call centres are even worse. It can be soooo exhausting.

That woman is a legend & sooo funny 🤣🤣🤣

In the early days of voice recognition, I certainly had issues with it. I have an Alexa now, but I only use it for one reason. When I've had a few and want to play darts, I just say "Alexa, lamp on" to trun on the dartboard light & "Alexa, lamp off" after I've destroyed my wall a bit more 😂

I have an Echo next to my computer and it did not understand what she was saying until she did the English accent as well...lol.

She went all Bob Hoskins there. 😂

I'm from black country area in UK and alexa has no idea at us either you have to try to change accent it's mad lol. (People from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, will have this problem) Alexa definitely isn't a English product it's an American English only.

You need to show this to queen Boomer!! She would love it 😅🤣😂😎❤👏🙌🙏👍🎉

I was watching this in the kitchen while cooking. When I came back to my lounge on the other side of the house some strange music was playing from Alexa. Turns out it was "Somethings cooking" from the Italian Job soundtrack. I guess the theory is right 😂

I cannot play that clip without all 5 Alexas on my house going mental !

As a Glaswegian I can honestly say I’ve been stuck in a lift with no buttons trying to speak to an American machine and got nowhere I was in the lift for about 10 minutes before somebody came along. As for Alexa I unplugged it around the third time of trying to get it to understand me. For some reason though My tv can understand me figure that one out. I’ve been in London for many years so I know my accent has mellowed unless I am speaking to a fellow Scot. As for Siri that can fuck off as well. all the best. Rab

South Australia here: My girlfriend is from Yorkshire, and I'm of Scots parentage born in SA. Her massive screen smart arse TV has been set to first Australian and later English English. Neither setting understands her. I have to translate so her TV can respond with its bugger all capability. The Irish TV show Mrs Brown's Boys did the same in an episode. Then she sets it to Irish and it answers but says things like "WTF 'r you asking that f'r?! Feck'n fig'r it out f'r y'rself." ... Or words to the effect.

The English accent was more like Australian . Dana is an Irish singer and it's pronounced differently from Donna .

My husband and I, who are originally from Birmingham, also have trouble with Alexa understanding us at times.

Thing is she actually sounded more Australian than English in the end.

Scots is effectively it's own language. I don't use Scots vernacular when talking to people that won't understand it. I think people don't realise it's more than an accent thing, it's often completely different words. Plus, these "Scottish accent" reactions almost always refer to a really strong Glaswegian accent which is totally different from a eg middle class Edinburgh accent. We don't all talk like pure mad weegies 😜

I love how, "Ya cow!", is apparently the utmost insult in Scotland! 😄😂🤣💀

I have Sky TV which does have a voice controlled button on the remote for supposed ease of finding programmes, films etc and yes the bugger only recognises what I ask for about half the time. We do have Alexa too and ours does not always get my accent either. I’m from Perth which is different again to Glasgow or Dundee or Edinburgh or Aberdeen or Inverness etc.

She managed to turn 'cow' into an onomatopoeia at the end 🤣

My Glaswegian accent is not especially strong, but neither my wife nor I could be understood. Her favourite response was, "I don't know that" to almost everything and everything. Alexa was consigned to the dustbin. I know an old lady who has a voice-activated tv and she told me it didn't work. She wanted to watch BBC One Scotland. What the tv heard was BBC Wan (phonetically that is how many people in my part of Scotland would say One). Hysterical 😅

The bad thing is my Alexa understood everything she said and kept playing there's something cooking in the kitchen by dana

Google assistant is also a cow. I have daily battles with it.

My Alexa did not respond at all to this video until the woman made her request in an "English" accent at which point it burst into life with "Something's cooking in the kitchen" . I've never had a problem although my husband, raised in Glasgow's East End, has frequently. Kudos to my mother for insisting on good diction.

It does happen and not just with Alexa. One of the utility companies used to have a call centre full of people with Bengali accents who couldn't understand Scottish accents, because of the number of complaints they got they replaced their agents with an automated system, that went as well as expected. Most of the customers they have left now use the webchat to bypass the system.

She sounds like an Aussie when she does the english lmao.

So glad you did this one - thought you'd like it! 🤣

While watching this MY Alexa kept answering the on screen Alexa !

It's definitely a thing. I'm a Scotsman living in England and sometimes my girlfriend and her family don't even understand my accent, let alone Alexa. I gave up with voice recognition a long time ago. It just raises my blood pressure and makes me want to launch Alexa at the wall.

Well MY Alexa recognised this accent, as it started playing music straight away, when it tuned into this video!😂

real Scot here and yes, we have so many different dialects here that still any closed captions / subs cannot get a Scots accent right, unless its also following queens english rules and also slows down too. We have Scots, Scottish Gaelic and Doric but many many other dialects in between too. For example, i live near Perth, yet i have trouble understanding broad Dundonian, which is basically only 15 miles from me, and Doric is sometimes quite difficult for me too. And its not just accents but words too. In my town we something good is Doss, whereas just down the road in Fife the same word means something shit. I call a child a 'bairn' whereas other Scots call a child a 'wean' .... You'll never hear of a bairn named 'Wayne' in Glasgow hehe.. Right, which of my fellow Scots think King Boomer should react next to Still Game or Rab C?

my alexa is reacting to this video....

Your surveillance device doesn't understand you.

Her convos pure normal , it’s Scottish way not anger 😂

OMG - My Alexa understood the English accent...I'm now listening to Something's Cooking In The Kitchen by Dana. 😂🤣🤣🤣

Thank you!!! 💙This is priceless!

You should watch the video of two Scottish guys in a voice recognition lift, who had to get out and walk up the stairs

haha it set my Alexa of straight away as soon as she said Alexa playing some random Crap music and lmao when she did it in English my Alexa played it the exact song :)

Epic reaction to the twist at the end. Legend.

I recall Kevin Bridges doing a similar bit on voice recognition at the cinema.

my wife adopts an engerlandish accent when doing a google search on her mobile..I flatly refuse ..I AM NOT A TRAITOR ! 😂

There is a comedy clip where two Scottish guys are talking to a voice activated lift.

Yes 100% Alexa a freaking night mare

I have Scottish In Laws and they have trouble with Alexa.

thank you i love that clip thought i would never hear it again

That’s so true I end up shouting at it

I’ve got an east coast accent (fife) and I have to go English to get her to play blur

"...Ya caaaaoooow!" 🤣

According to Alexa. I can't say "I". My Scottish accent isn't even strong 😂

Ask a Scottish person to say "purple burglar alarms" 🤣🤣

That's typical of us Scot's we get frustrated with alexa all the time 😂😂

This is a horrible future when every store and customer service is operated by Alexa's and robots.

Irish here, I asked Google to wake me at 7. Ok, setting 150 alarms was the answer

The singer Ozzy had the same problem with a device in a car. It didn't recognise his Birmingham accent ! He got annoyed and swore at it. xx

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I can imitate most English accents since my mum is from old London (before it was gentrified/upmarket) and familyallaround the country. That cow Alexa really does hate Scottish people. Some Americans come over here and have no trouble at all understanding me, yet people from the Black Country can't understand me. They've a cheek.

she went to pick between english or american and in the end, she picked english but did australian.

This was hilarious - just cleaned Coffee off key board! 😭

While watching this my Alexa was listening and actually started playing 'somethings cooking in my kitchen' on the DAB radio.................work that one out.

There was a brilliant video of a guy trying to pair his phone to the car stereo system and it didn’t go well.

was watching this in range of my Alexa.....it was equally confused.....but it did turn on the kitchen light

I come from Norfolk. If you know you know. So I asked my Google speaker where to go for a strong beer. It kept directing me to Canada.

Automated voice-recognition generally has a problem with the Scottish accent. There's a semi-regular situation that has become a running joke at work (I'm the only Scot) where I call a customer of the company and they have a voice-operated options menu, so you have to say the person or department you wish to speak with. AUTOMATED SYSTEM: Please say the name of the person or department you wish to speak with. ME: Accounts Payable * pause * AS: Connecting you with John Mayo unless you say cancel. ME: Cancel AS: Please say the name of the person or department you wish to speak with. ME: Accounts Payable AS: Connecting you with Connie Smith unless you say cancel. ME: Cancel * colleagues start snickering AS: Please say the name of the person or department you wish to speak with. ME: Accounts Payable AS: Connecting you with Scott Gable unless you say cancel. ME: Cancel * A colleague who shall not be named has to leave the room so she doesn't piss herself from laughing so hard AS: Please say the name of the person or department you wish to speak with. ME: Accounts Payable AS: Connecting you with Connie Smith unless you say cancel. ME: Cancel AS: Please say the name of the person or department you wish to speak with. ME: * silence AS: Connecting you to the operator unless you say cancel.

I'm Welsh and with a Valleys accent - Alexa would have been being used as an ashtray after 2 days

Oh my god I thought it was just me that does that with Alexa lol my 9 year old gran daughter laughs and joins in as she knows how much Alexa annoys me ,now the only time Alexa is used is when my gran daughter wants to laugh and make fun of me when she comes to visit.

That English accent sounded like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins 😂

That's great. Hilarious.

That's just too real lol

I think there was a point where Alexa was good at picking up some accents but then something changed and it no longer could do it.

Alexa understands a highland accent!

It’s one the very rare few encrypted accents.

I'm Scottish and moved to America about 9 years ago. I couldn't do drive thru's, phone orders, or anything voice activated for years. Now I just use an American accent, but I still refuse to go through a drive thru because I never get what I fuckin ordered. EVER!!!

This video is painfully accurate

There's a video of a wee scottish girl trying to talk to alexa, so funny

I was watching this reaction and I could suddenly hear music playing, so I paused the video and I could still hear music playing... it was 'Something's cooking in my kitchen by Fucking Dana... My Alexa must have understood her when she said it with an Australian accent (there is no way her English accent sounded English) 😂

as a gleswegian who talks faster than my brain can think lmao alexa never understands me i broke her out of rage fs 😭😭😭😭

I am from Tyneside, so have a Geordie accent. If the. Local council automated phone, can’t understand me

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She sounds like she’s saying Donna! It’s the same with my Yorkshire accent.

While I was watching this video, my Echo Dot started playing the song...even tho her voice sounds nothing like mine!

She obviously wanted to listen to it while cooking, but if someone said they were gonna cook for me but started making tiktoks about alexa instead I'd probably say "put the f-ing dinner on" as well.

Alexa doesnt listen to a word i say from England yet ive just had to turn mine of just now because mine kept picking up on everything this woman was asking her and trying to play her song

Can confirm these things dont understand Scottish There are automated numbers to phone for parking in Glasgow - and they dont understand the Glasgow accent.