Alexa, fetch me my bottle! Mother's shock after her baby son's first word is directed at Amazon's voice-activated virtual assistant 

• Joe Brady uttered the word after becoming fascinated with an Amazon Echo
• His parents Lottie and Mark say Joe had noticed their commands to the device
• Alexa's response would be 'sorry I didn't get that' and Joe would laugh out loud 

A toddler shocked his mother with his first word -  'Alexa' -  after Amazon's voiced activated virtual assistant.

Little Joe Brady's parents noticed their son had become fascinated with their Echo smart speaker, which responds to 'Alexa', and their constant commands to it.

But Lottie Ledger, 21, and Mark Brady 22 were stunned when Joe spoke to the Echo just after turning a year old.

Joe couldn't get Alexa to respond every time, but when he did he would break into a fit of excitement.

 Lottie said: 'He actually said Alexa before he said mum or dad.

'It was one of the few things he could get a reaction from.

'Alexa would say, Sorry, I didn't get that', and Joe would laugh and laugh.

'One day he managed it. We thought it was funny at first so we encouraged it.

'It was weird because it took us ages to work out what he was saying.

'Then he started running towards it, trying to activate it and we realised.'

The youngster's first meeting with Alexa was at his grandparent's home in Gateshead.

Since uttering his unusual first word, Joe, now aged 18 months, has gone on to develop a wide vocabluary.  

Alexa was launched in 2014 and is inspired by the voice system in the Star Trek TV series.    

The device can play music, set alarms, manage shopping lists and even give you a weather report. At least 20 million have been sold since its release.         

There have been many more examples of babies speaking unconventional first words.

Bruno Bouchet's 13-month-old daughter Juliet's first word sent shivers down his spine -  'murder'.

Mr Bouchet, an executive producer of an Australian breakfast show, was washing his daughter in the bath last year when she muttered the chilling first word. 

Last year, McFly's Harry Judd and his wife Izzy,  shared an adorable clip on Instagram showing their daughter Lola uttering her very first word - 'Pep-pa'. Harry and Izzy can be seen at the start of the clip singing the Peppa Pig theme.