Morano: Most good operators know you don’t want to do some kind of change while an actor’s delivering lines, but it’s hard to not know what you can get away with if you aren’t the director. If you are directing and you are the one cutting it and telling the story, you can ...
Amazon gave its music lovers something of an early holiday gift last year in the form of two newAlexa voice features— “Local Popularity” and “Play More Like This” for its users. Both are intended to improve the listening experience and help folks discover new music on their Echo devices...
It's true that Alexa has already offered some items at random times before (Amazon Music comes to mind). We always answer with an annoyed "Ah, no. Nuh-nuh-no." Sometimes she pops up with a yellow-ringed alert that's a reminder to do something about an upcoming Subscribe and Save ord...
Hears you from across the room with far-field voice recognition, even while music is playing Answers questions, reads audiobooks and the news, reports traffic and weather, gives info on local businesses, provides sports scores and schedules, and more with Alexa, a cloud-based voice service Cont...
I can navigate through these and choose to call someone, while I'm driving. This was NOT one of the features that was locked out by the "need to be in park" mode. There's a better interface -- my voice -- built into the phone, but Smart is making it hard to use it. Note ...
more in-depth format, then you might want to try playing finance podcasts with Alexa instead. Each podcast below can be played on your Echo device without a subscription through the free Amazon Music integration. You’ll find all of them available on Amazon Music, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts...
“PlayingIvyby Frank Ocean on Apple Music.” When you’re first learning the ropes with Alexa, it’s nice to know that the voice assistant is listening. In fact, some may prefer to hear their repeated commands in Alexa’s responses. For those of us that want our songs to start as soo...
Top 7 Ways to Fix Amazon Echo Sound Keeps Cutting Out Amazon Echo smart speakers come in several price offerings. 8 Ways to Fix Alexa Not Playing Amazon Music Some Basic Fixes Restart your Echo device: You should start the troubleshooting process of Alexa not playing Amazon Music by restarting...
"Hey Siri" seems like a great way to access some simple commands while your hands are full, like when you're cooking. But poor reliability makes "Hey Siri" an exercise in futility more than anything else. For instance, you can't activate "Hey Siri" when your iPhone plays music because...
Another surprising finding: Since these are British users we’re talking about, the right way to say this is that almost one in 10 users talk to their voice assistant while on the loo. “Unsurprisingly,” according to this recap of the study, “the most popular use was to play music or...