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Alexa: Three basic tips for coping with the native voice assistant
By a new name, a user of the voice assistant can give a Touch of character (symbol image)
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The light by voice command to turn on and off or short-the weather check – the now well-established voice assistant can be in many tasks in everyday life is helpful. How to customize Amazon’s Alexa on your personal preferences.
Voice assistants have become established in many households. The smart speaker can often be an effective aid in everyday life, but often users don’t know that you can adjust the basic functions of Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s Siri or the Google Assistant on your personal preferences. Here is a selection of three options available to users of Amazon’s Alexa is available.
Amazon’s Alexa, a number of other names are possible
Users want to appeal to multiple devices with different names, or activation, words, or work around that one Smart Speaker is activated because of the first name of a family member, you need to use the App. Here can be changed in the settings of the respective device, the command to enable necessary. So, too, “the Computer is, for example,” to choose from.
An Alternative is chosen, it can happen, for example, that the assistant is activated, if you want to actually talk with his Partner “Alex”. Instead, users simply requests such as: “Computer, what time is it?” And the assistant is not to listen at all, is located on the speaker itself is also a mute button. This is pressed, the microphone, the else is waiting for a command, so that the assistant can be activated. A further press on the button switches the microphone again.
More features through Skills
So-called Skills of the functionality can be significantly expand. Consumers can also install games such as the “knights Manager” or to the interactive Thriller “tape stories”, quizzes to complete, and much more to pass the time. Many news portals offer the most diverse News and also the TV program can ask the user. Popular and new Skills will be able to discover a User in the App or via Browser on PC and Laptop, or with the question “do you Have a Skill recommendation for me?” also proposals to leave.
Several commands in a row run
About “routines” users can set in the App are several commands to do a language assistant in succession automatically with just one command. The tasks can be customized in the order. So it is possible, for example, a Routine for the command “Computer, good Morning” set. On the call, the assistant could call the current time, the weather inform, supported devices, such as, for example, switch the coffee machine on and the current message playback.
