Do you talk to yourself out loud when alone?

Yes, just some debating about things
You know, you need some advice from yourself

“In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: “you still speak in riddles.”
“What? In riddles?” said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
―**J.R.R. Tolkien,The Two Towers
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I sometimes yell at stoplights when I’m driving alone, does that count? I rarely get annoyed by other drivers, but I can count on one hand the amount of lights I’ve gotten to that were green in the last week, and that’s pretty standard for me.
Everyone’s talked to thelrself at least once

When I’m alone? Hell, I talk to myself out loud all the time! I usually answer myself, too. It’s gotten to the point that Elevyn will not even answer me unless I specifically say her name first, kinda like Alexa. She knows I’m usually not talking to her….
Only with Alexa.

Of course I don’t talk to myself out loud. That’s ridiculous. I whisper.
The way I figure it, if Alexa only responds to her name, then she has to be listening to everything else being said.


Doing it right now
I have FireCubes and they are all supposedly muted and I have never set up a keyword. I have, on a few occasions, been listening to a podcast and the volume will lower and there will a dull “bong” sound and the blue strip light will be illuminated on the cube. I have no idea what the magic word that was said on the podcast and it ticks me off that muting the mic apparently does nothing. I’ve gotten in the habit of saying the worst stuff I can think of when I walk by, just to train the AI. ![]()






