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I have three echo's at the office. It's utterly boring and completely un-natural to talk to. Even when you learn the commands it feels so forced, having to draw
by deanclatworthy 10y ago
I have three echo's at the office. It's utterly boring and completely un-natural to talk to. Even when you learn the commands it feels so forced, having to draw from memory the almost exact syntax required to trigger each skill. Furthermore the majority of the user-contributed skills are absolute nonsense. Top ones include cat and dog facts. Amazon really should curate them as discovery right now is impossible with all the crap. And as there are so few users, there are hardly any reviews - making it hard to find what's good and what's not.
The echos also can't talk to each other - meaning you can't tell echo1 to play music on echo2.
Oh, and the speaker is pretty poor for the value. If you want to play with Alexa, get a dot and hook it to your own speakers.
And don't buy them if you're not in the UK or US. You physically can't set to an address in either of those countries yet - meaning no local features for you - apart from the time.