A nursing home resident in the US asked Alexa for medical help before she died alone after contracting coronavirus.
LouAnn Dagen, 66, passed away on Saturday shortly after being admitted to intensive care at a hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Recordings have revealed that Ms Dagen repeatedly talked with her Amazon Echo as she suffered with shortness of breath and other symptoms of the disease.
Her sister Penny Dagen discovered the recordings after her death, WOOD-TV reported.
Around 40 recordings were made in the final days before she succumbed to the illness.
"I am in pain. I have to find a way to relieve it," LouAnn Dagen was heard to say in the recordings.
"Can you help me cope with pain?"
"Oh, Alexa, I'm going to hurt.'
She also asked: "How do I get to the police?"
It has since emerged that 31 residents and staff have tested positive for the virus in Metron of Cedar Springs nursing home in Cedar Springs, Michigan.
LouAnn, who had diabetes, was rushed to the ICU at Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital after her oxygen level and blood pressure dropped on Saturday morning.
It emerged that LouAnn had been living at the care facility than a decade after suffering a stroke more than a decade ago.
Her nursing home had treated her condition by giving her pain medication and a sline solution before she was hospitalised.
Penny added: "They said she talked to the ambulance people all the way there, but when she got there, she went into convulsions," Penny said.
"The hospital called me right away and said that they put her on a respirator… They asked me about giving her CPR if her heart stopped and I said, 'No, she didn't want that.'"
"And then her heart stopped and that was it. A half hour after they called."
In Michigan 849 people have died from coronavirus and 18,970 people have been infected.
The number of cases in the US now stand at over 400,000 - the highest total anywhere in the world.
