Uttar Pradesh: Teen uses Alexa voice to save her and infant sister from monkey attack
Monkeys entered the kitchen and started throwing things here and there. Then I saw Alexa and asked it to play the sound of a dog. Because of that barking sound, the monkeys were scared and ran away, said Nikita. Read further on Dynamite News:
Basti: Nikita, a 13-year-old girl, who displayed presence of mind and fended off monkeys using an Alexa device at her home in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, said on Saturday that the simians started leaving the kitchen after they heard the sound of barking dog.
Nikita saved her and her infant sister when monkeys entered their home.
Narrating the incident, she said a few guests visited their home and they left the gate open.
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"Monkeys entered the kitchen and started throwing things here and there. The kid was scared and so did I but then I saw Alexa and asked it to play the sound of a dog. Because of that barking sound, the monkeys were scared and ran away," Nikita said.
Nikita's mother Shipra Ojha said that Nikita's swift action saved both the girls from a monkey attack.
"Their lives were saved by good use of the Alexa device. We were in another room but due to the wisdom of daughter Nikita, she asked the Alexa to bring out the sound of a dog and hearing that the monkeys ran away," she said.
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Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based voice interactive voice assistant. (with ANI inputs)