Amazon Echo With Full Of Surprises

Posted by Own A Space on April 27th, 2016

Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker, a device that that you can control with your voice from Amazon.com. Amazon Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to provide information on weather, news, sports scores you can play music and do much more, all you have to do is ask.

It’s tech specs includes, seven microphones, 2.0" tweeter, 2.5" woofer with a reflex port for extra bass, Light ring volume adjustment and the beam forming technology. It’s expertly tuned speaker with 360° immersive sound makes it recognize your voice across the room even while music is playing. Echo recognizes one when you say the wake word "Alexa" it responds instantly — you can pick "Amazon", "Echo" or "Alexa" as the wake word. This device can be your virtual assistant that can handle multiple of your daily activities.

Let’s Have A Look On Some Surprisingly Useful Things Echo Can Do:

Alexa, What Time Is It?

Don’t search for your phone or even taking out from your pocket or purse, just ask time from Echo by saying “Alexa, what time is it?”

Alexa, Play Some Music

As compared to other virtual assistants that are voice control music playback, Echo takes less time to respond to your commands and can pause, skip and change songs.

Alexa, Ask Uber To Request A Ride.

You can search or book your ride with this command, once you activate Alexa app Uber skills and your Echo will help you to know how far away the closest car is, and even to know if there is any sure price before accepting the ride.

Alexa, Set A Timer For 10 Minutes.

Imagine setting up a timer for cooking or baking and a radar-like pinging will let you know that the food is cooked o baked when the timer is up.

Alexa, Add Toothpaste To The Shopping List.

Whenever, you feel certain things are going to run out, you just tell Alexa to add the item to the shopping list. You can order items or buy them later straight from Amazon.

Alexa, What's On My Calendar?

You can set up an upcoming appointment or can remember anniversary so that you don’t need to search through your phone for an upcoming schedule

Alexa, Read My Audio Book

Amazon Echo can read your audio book out loud that you have purchased from Audible. You can also skip chapters, restart chapters, resume audio book from old chapter or go back to a specific chapter.

Alexa, What Was The Score?

Instead of visiting websites, you can ask Echo to look through the scores to find the one you want.

Alexa, What's In The News?

You can choose news sources you want to get information from, like ESPN, NPR, and local radio stations, after first setup of Echo.

Alexa, Find Me A Good Italian Restaurant Nearby.

Echo can help you find a nearby restaurant from any cuisine you like, just ask Alexa and it will start listing off restaurants.

Amazon Echo has lots of built-in features, and is constantly getting better all the time. This device is a perfect virtual assistant that can help you manage your appointments, schedule and searching or exploring things.

About the Author:-

The article is written by Reenna Arora, associated with Own A Space, one of the leading property portal of Dubai. We cover all kind of properties across Dubai and other Emirates. It is your Own Space catering to various real-estates related needs and it’s here the buyer and seller meet online with detailed information on property requirements of the client.