Today, however, it has carved out a unique space in smart home technology. Alexa responds to voice commands, plays music, creates to-do lists, controls smart devices, and even reads audiobooks. Through Alexa Skills Development, users and developers can expand Alexa’s capabilities to suit a ...
With that in mind, people do have complaints about the way Alexa works. If you find Alexa to be a bit too chatty or you get tired of her constantly playing music from the wrong platform, you canchange these settingsto ensure the assistant works exactly as you want. Here’s how to chan...
IndieWire has expanded our survey of cinematographers out into the fall film festivals this year, starting with Venice. We reached out to directors of photography with films playing in Competition, Out of Competition, and Horizons about the cameras, lenses, and formats they used — and, most imp...
The best smart speakers put Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri in your home to answer questions, control smart home devices, play music and more.
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 ...
Alexa voice control has made it easier to do everything from controlling lights and thermostats to playing music on demand. But it hasn’t been possible to play video on a home theater—until now. You can ask Alexa to play music and videos on a compatible Plex player. The list of offici...
And for playing music? Well, we had stereos, our iPods or phones, and many other ways to play tunes. Sure, the intercom feature might be helpful. But who needs an internet-connected device listening to your every word? But with Alexa, Amazon managed to capture lightning in a bottle…...
I decided to mount the circuit board in the phone case, cutting out a slot to make the charging port and switch accessible without dismantling the phone. I drilled a 25mm hole in the base of the case for the speaker and then hot-glued the board in place. Step 5: Phone Box Challenge...
-Sometimes sound randomly cuts out if I have too many things open that have any audio. If I have a game open, that mutes its own audio when it is in the background, and I am trying to watch youtube, while also having spotify open, but the music paused and not playing...then the...
"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...