Hi Dane,
I have sent voice messages to people, and that is pretty cool. I will have to try the old time radio skill though. I love Fibber McGee and Molly. Mary From: Dane Trethowan [mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 1:45 PM To: Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm! <techno-chat@techno-chat.net> Subject: Re: [Techno-Chat]: Amazon Echo I believe that Amazon Echo, Google Home etc are going to be devices that help shape our future. I was interested to read your observations on the Amazon Echo App, I have 3 Amazon Echo devices here, the main Echo, Dot and Tap, all of which had to be setup online through a web page given the Amazon App isn’t available for IOS in Australia through our Apps Store and to be frank I didn’t even check if the Android App was available so I’ll go and take a peak in a few minutes. I love the way various services can integrate with Amazon and Google, fir instance I can tell Google or Amazon to turn various appliances on and off in my house. Perhaps you might like to try some of the new Amazon Echo skills that allow the making and receiving of phone calls, the sending of SMS messages, the ability to listen to Old-Time radio Drama and so the list goes on. On 3 Jun 2017, at 3:00 am, Stores, Mary A. <msto...@indiana.edu <mailto: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 ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
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