Alexa Gets Hooked Up To a Singing Fish Toy, and Mocked By Jimmy Kimmel

An anonymous reader writes: An updated version of the singing 'Big Mouth Billy Bass' plastic fish toy now speaks (with synchronized lip movements) with the voice of Alexa. 'Your humdrum life will be totally uprooted because you hung a talking fish on your wall,' jokes Fast Company. 'Just imagine setting an alarm and being woken up by a Big Mouth Billy Bass dancing and flopping around while it sings to you,' adds Mashable.
But more than half the device's 100 reviews from Amazon customer's award it just one star (with another 15% awarding two stars). 'The programming on these fish are awful,' wrote one reviewer, complaining that the sound continues coming from the Echo device (rather than through the fish's speaker), and when it does actualy sync to the music, 'the tail flaps and head movements are off-beat and look terrible.'
Meanwhile, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently staged a skit with a carolling 'choir' of Amazon's smart speakers dressed in Christmas sweaters and caps — a skit which ends with the devices producing a horrific cacophony that Kimmel was unable stop. Kimmel then instructs a stagehand to bring the choir of singing Alexa units 'to the ocean, and dump it in.'

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