Shut down dialog box

On an intermittent basis (but every day) I am getting the shutdown dialog box appearing accompanied by the voice instruction requesting whether I want to shut down the computer down. Despite selecting cancel each time the box still pops up again. This can go on for several iterations.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Roger

I've never heard of that happening. My best guess would be that the power button is faulty or sticking or something along those lines. If that is the case, you could take it to the Apple Store, but the experience tends to be that they can't recreate any "intermittent" errors, so try to find some way of documenting it if you can.

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