The Echo can be configured via the web as well Mary. Just go to http://alexa.amazon.com and sign in as usual,
I have battery bases for my Echo and Echo Dot. I also use the voice remote a lot. I listened in the garden to some of my favourite books yesterday and after 5 hours of continuous use, the full size Echo on battery was still going strong. ======================================== My complements and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <gor...@mac-access.net> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. Contact: • UK Geographic – +44(0) 1642 688095 • UKFree Phone – 0800 8620538 • UK Mobile – +44 (0) 7907 823971 • Australia Geographic – +61 38 82059300 • US Geographic – +1 646 9151493Mobile/S ---------------------------------------- On 2 Jun 2017, at 18:00, Stores, Mary A. <msto...@indiana.edu> wrote: Hello, I just got a 2nd generation Echo Dot last Monday (this is my first Echo). I have to say I am really loving it. So far I hink it’s the best technology investment since my iPhone two years ago. It didn’t take me too long to set it up. People told me the Alexa app was going to suck. It is definitely not the most intuitive app ever invented, but I did get my Dot connected on wifi and signed up to my Amazon account. Then to amuse myself I went to different parts of my apartment and gave Alexa commands to see if she could hear me. I have a 700-square foot apartment. She could hear me in the kitchen, living room, and most of the hallway. My estimate is that’s about half my apartment’s size. What I like the best is the ability for Alexa to read Kindle books. When I use my phone app to read them I get interrupted because of whatever other notifications come in. Whatever text to speech engine they are using for Alexa, there aren’t that many mispronounced words at all, and I think Alexa does a better narration than some other book narrators out there. I’ts just so much simpler to ask for things by voice also. I have at least 6 news sources hooked into my flash briefing now with probably more to come. I’ts nice ot make my coffee and do my morning routine while listening to the news, and all because it took me 2 seconds to ask Alexa to give me the headlines. Mary
