in the UK, amazon prime music, has over 2 million songs and growing, and if
you have music unlimited, it has over 40 million songs.
So it is certainly not pathetic, here in the UK.
It must be different for you, in canada.
Dave.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 10:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Echo?
Alexa can play a lot of music, but when you compare it to Apple Music,
Spotify or Deezer it's positively pathetic. Amazon Music which you get with
an Amazon Prime subscription has a mere 1 Million songs compared to the
around 40 million songs from the other services.
-----Original Message-----
From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 1:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Echo?
Aah, now that appeals. Bro' was on about music, but not sure how that was
done either. Podcasts have persistently illuded me so far, so lots to play
with TG!
Thanks, BobH.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Lemly" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Echo?
I'll add to Sieghard's excellent overview that Alexa and the Amazon Echoes
are great for listening to podcasts. You don't even need
to enable any additional skills to do this. You just need to know the name
of the podcast. For example, you can say "Alexa, play
AppleVis podcast" and she'll play the latest episode of that podcast. Very
convenient.
Alan Lemly
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On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
You have to download the skills, some you can ask Alexa directly to enable
them but others you have to use the Amazon Alexa app on
the iPhone since things like Netatmo weather station, Lyric WiFi
thermostat and so on require you to put in your login name/email
address and password.
I find a lot of the more trivial skills fairly useless because you have to
remember the correct phrase to talk to it so that can
get a bit tideous.
-----Original Message-----
From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 12:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Echo?
Are Skills on it from the start, or downloaded, or whatever; I really
hadn't followed the plot on these until Bro' was on about
his latest gismo for an hour on the phone. Got cramp, then got bored
listening to him! But fascinated really.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mama Peach" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Echo?
There are tons and tons of skills as mentioned, and many of them are
really fun dice, card and adventure games. You can do so much
with the Echo devices. I have an Echo Spot and I have a fire tablet that
also has Alexa on it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 12:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Echo?
I assume this refers to the Amazon Echo smart speaker which works with
Amazon's digital assistant Alexa.
Google has their line of google Home speakers which of course use the
Google Assistant, in that respect Google is pretty boring,
Apple has SIRI, Amazon has Alexa and Google has the "Google Assistant",
very impersonal.
Anyhow, just as with the Google Home speaker line-up, there are a number
of Echo speakers available. The most popular ones I think
are probably the Echo Dot and the regular Echo. Both are round cylinders,
about 3.3 inches in diameter and the Dot is only about
1.5 inches tall, a regular Echo is probably about 6 or 8 inches tall. The
Dot also has a 3.5mm output jack which allows you to
hook up larger speakers for better audio or you can connect it to a
receiver or Sonos player. You use the word "Alexa" to get it
to listen and then ask your question, it can set alarms, timers and do
conversions as well as answer a bunch of questions about
countries, people etc. You can also enable so-called "Skills", basically
think of them as apps. We have the Philipps Hue light
bulbs at home as well as a Netatmo weather station and Honeywell Lyric
WiFi thermostat. I can ask Alexa to turn on the lights, ask
the temperature or humidity of the Netatmo outside or inside modules or
tell it to set the temperature to 21 degrees or whatever.
Alexa can also tell all sorts of jokes like Knock Knock jokes, dinosaur
jokes etc., she can sing songs, tell stories or poems, and
as for timers the nice thing is that you can set multiple timers which I
still can't believe SIRI can't do after being around for
what, 6 and a half years? In the US/Canada and Mexico you can also make
free phone calls via the Echo to any landline or cellular
phone although I must say the quality is often disappointing. Also, if you
have multiple Echos throughout the house of even one in
a different location but on the same Amazon account you can use them like
a hands free Intercom, when I'm in the bedroom and want
to talk to my wife in the living room I can simply say "Alexa, drop in to
the Living Room"
and after a couple of seconds my wife hears a few beeps and then there is
an open two-way line where you can just talk.
Regards,
SieghardI can simply say
-----Original Message-----
From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: viphone <[email protected]>
Subject: Echo?
hi, often saw threads or comments about "Echo", can't remember what this
is or does or whatever. An app to do something with
something else; all so vague.
Enlightenment please, hearing a lot more lately as popular without any of
them saying Why!
Thanks, BobH.
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