As for Bard books, I do play them on my Alexa through my phone but I have found that when I say pause or stop it doesn't work. I still have to manually stop it on my phone.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 12:12 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: New Echo You have to understand the way these devices work. The Alexa app on your phone is primarily an interface to adjust settings on your Echo speaker, add skills and so on. Yes, it is to some extend also allowing you to use your iPhone like an Alexa speaker, e.g. ask questions or give commands just as you would to your Echo speaker. As far as playing books on your Echo speaker which in fact are playing on your phone like BARD, in this case you basically use yur Echo speaker just like you would any Bluetooth speaker, e.g. you pair it to your phone and the whatever you play on your phone plays via your Echo. But because the Echo is a smartspeaker you can obviously take it one step further, i.e. once a book is playing you can ask your speaker to pause or resume or skip forward or back, on a regular Bluetooth speaker you would do these things by pressing the appropriate button. But I don't think you can pair your Echo to your phone and then tell it to play a BARD book unless you first start the book in your BARD app. Audible is a different matter because Amazon owns Audible hence it's very seamlessly integrated into Echo speakers and as long as you are signed into your speaker with the same Amazon account you use for Audible the Alexa assistant has access to your Audible library. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of deidre muccio Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:46 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New Echo Joshua, Wow this just opened up a new door for me! Thank you. I knew I was missing something that should’ve been doable. Pairing it, Bluetooth, got it. I might’ve seen that somewhere in settings and wasn’t sure exactly what it would be doing, but if you say it can do it I’m sure it can do it.Admitte admittedly I was confused about why I could run the echo even without Bluetooth since I thought it was indeed linked to my phone via the Alexa app. I don’t have Bluetooth on. But I guess I’ll turn it on if I wanna do something like have it read me a Bard book. Thank you again. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Hendrickson <louv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can use my google home to easily access bard mobile on my iPhone if > I wish. I'm sure the echo is the same. What you do, is first tell > your echo to connect. It will then say searching, then should connect > to your iPhone. Note, you must first make sure that you have paired > your echo to your iPhone in order for this to work. Next, open bard > mobile app on your iPhone. Hit your play button of your bard mobile > app and your book will begin to play. Now, stop playback of your bard > book. Now, tell your echo to play, and your bard book will begin to > play. You can do things like say stop and your book will stop, if you > tell your echo next or back, then your bard book will go forward or > back by chapter if the mark-up in the book is by chapter. Good luck. > >> On 3/6/21, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> You must be buying really tiny cantaloupes *smile* I would say the >> fourth gen Echo is more like a slightly larger tennis ball, sorry, >> I'm not too familiar with baseball, but I think that is more like it. >> I bought my wife the version which has a clock display which she >> loves because if she wakes up at night she can just glance at it to >> know what time it is. >> At my office I just set up the Echo Show 5 which is the smallest Echo >> with a screen and I primarily bought it because it makes it very easy >> to connect to my ring video doorbell with just a voice command. >> However, you still wouldn't be able to just play movies, yes, you >> could set up YouTube I think, but if you want to use it you would be >> better off with a Google smart speaker with screen since Google owns >> YouTube and it's already integrated. I am not sure about Amazon prime >> Video on the Echo Show, we just never use it for that. With a Google >> speaker with screen, whatever they call it, you can also play >> anything on your iPhone like Netflix or in the TV app and send it to the >> Google via Chromecast. >> >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf >> Of deidre muccio >> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:06 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Cc: Daniel Macdonald <daniel.angus.macdon...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: New Echo >> >> I believe what I have is an echo fourth generation. It’s about the >> size of a cantaloupe. No it does not have a screen. Maybe I will get >> a little one with a tiny screen or the smaller screen so that I can >> just watch movies without having to touch my phone. Thanks for cluing >> me into what was should’ve been obvious. Anyway I’m playing around >> with this looking at commands seeing I still have a lot of work to do >> to streamline it’s recognizing the specific podcast and things like >> that that I want to play. This morning it’s doing a pretty good job >> of doing it, Meaning I’m getting the syntax down that Alexa is best >> at recognizing. I meant to write listen to movies not watch since I wouldn’t >> be able to see a thing on any screen. >> Deirdre >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Daniel MacDonald >> <daniel.angus.macdon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Helli, >> >> The dot to dot podcast is a great one to listen to. It[s demos of >> various echo skills. Also for more in-depth demos, the echo show >> podcast is good. It would help us if we new what kind of Echo you >> have. As far as enabling video skills, that is limited to echos with >> screens, the echo show and it’s variants, and the echo spot. The echo >> show comes in five, eight, and ten inch sizes. The only echo you can >> watch Amazon is the echo show. To enable some skills, go to the >> amazon Alexa app to more. You’ll find an area called skills and >> games. You can also enable skills by voice if you know the skill name. >> >> >> On Mar 3, 2021, at 10:15 PM, >> <deidreandlou...@gmail.com<mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com>> >> <deidreandlou...@gmail.com<mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> Someone gave me a gift of a new Echo. Some basic set up has been done today. >> I've read some helpful info from emails Amazon keeps sending me and >> I've been on the Amazon site which gives a list of things to look >> into. Some of what I am told to do isn't fool proof, perhaps due to human >> error. >> I cant seem to get at the place having to do with >> enabling video such as Prime Video or Netflix. I've got both Apps on >> the phone and naively thought I could use Alexa to activate those >> apps. It doesn't seem to work that way! I followed instructions from >> a hard file as well as where Alexa tole me to look, that were >> supposed to get me to TV and Movies under Skills and Games, I think, but I >> never got there. >> Under the section in settings for Communication, I did check off >> various music services and podcasts and Tune In stations I listen to >> and Alexa was able to find those. I can't however find the place to >> do that with video, TV and/or movies I am subscribed to. >> I really did imagine that I could tell Alexa to do things like open >> Bard and continue reading what I was reading last. I assumed the Echo >> device was totally privy to everything on my phone, as if it had a mirror >> image of it. >> Hmmmm, I'm smiling. 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