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Stockton University student Alexa Seary shares the same name as Amazon and Apple's virtual assistants.

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Imagine sharing your name with two of the most popular voice-activated assistants. That's the reality for New Jersey college student Alexa Seary.

Seary, a Ventnor resident, has faced a fair amount of ribbing because of her name, according to a Huffington Post report.

It started when Apple came out with its voice assistant Siri, which matched the phonetic version of her last name. Then Amazon launched its Echo assistant, Alexa.

Despite all the teasing, the Stockton University student said she's taking it all in stride.

"I have a great joke to tell people," she told NJ Advance Media in an email. "Overall, it's been really cool, my family is all thoroughly entertained and we have an ongoing group chat about it."

Seary said it's been a little crazy since her story went out.

"I think my words got a little twisted by one of the news places that was covering it as the headline was that I felt the situation was 'a waking nightmare'. I definitely never felt as dramatic about it as that makes it sound," she said.

As a communications major, she isn't opposed to capitalizing on her newfound fame.

And even though she has Siri on her iPhone, she isn't planning on getting the Echo any time soon.

I never said it was a 'waking nightmare'😂😂 Posted by Alexa Seary on Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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