@timmy @rvaughnmd @pluralistic

When I was young, we even had coffee makers without Alexa functionality.

They were rather ingenious, they had 'buttons', little surfaces connected to mechnical levers and an electronic switch.

As user, you would touch the 'button', and the coffee machine would then execute the associated command.

I dont know how it worked internally. I suppose they had a little speaker inside next to the Alexa microphone, and it would sound out the command at inaudible volume