Of course, you can make a routine that tells you to feed and walk your dog during the day, but you can also set up sound detection to start your routine. Once your dog barks, you can have Alexa bark back. Then, Alexa can start playing soft music to soothe your pup and send a not...
A TV may be on. Music may be playing in another room. A dog might be barking. A fan might be generating a blanket of white noise. You get the idea. Through all of that variety, somehow, Alexa has to determine if it's been woken up by the word "Alexa." Given that there a...
To communicate with others in a different room: say "Alexa, drop in downstairs" and ask family what's for dinner, or maybe check in on your little one playing in the other room. You can also drop in everywhere if you want to talk to your entire house at once. How You Could Use Al...
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opt for one that includes an onboard security camera. Use Alexa to build a Routine that fires the vac up when the dog starts barking, so not only will your house get cleaner, but you’ll also be able to pilot the vac (using its companion app) to see what’s going on with the ...
Each time I go to make a request, I have to consider which device will be taking that request and tailor the key phrase based on the assistant I want to invoke. More often than not, it is HomePod that answers my call to action — because Apple has put a lot...
This is basically how Explore with Alexa goes, with Alexa interspersing “I bet you’ll like this” monologues about crazy critters with an occasional trivia question: “What breed of dog played Toto inThe Wizard of Oz?” (Me: “I don’t know.”) “The answer is Cairn Terrier. T...