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It took me a few weeks/months to get used to Alexa and I have to say, it's really nice to be able to come home and say "Alexa play some music" and she always kn
by Swizec 10y ago
It took me a few weeks/months to get used to Alexa and I have to say, it's really nice to be able to come home and say "Alexa play some music" and she always knows I want some nice Jazz. When you say it in the morning, she plays morning music. It's nice.
Saying "Alexa 5 minute timer" is also convenient. "Alexa, weather" is less convenient because she doesn't know that I prefer Celsius over Fahrenheit. This is unfortunate, but at least she can do a conversion.
But then you do an "Alexa what's the velocity of an unladen swallow" and she won't even perform a basic Google or WolframAlpha search and give you the first result. Just says she doesn't understand. Lame.
Before all that, though, I had a lot of essentially stage fright whenever that Alexa blue light came on.
Same thing happened when I started using Siri after I was already used to Alexa. Invoke the voice thing, and the prompt comes on, and I am awash in stage fright, unsure what to say.
It's weird.
- sib 10y ago>> "Alexa, weather" is less convenient because she doesn't know that I prefer Celsius over Fahrenheit. This is unfortunate, but at least she can do a conversion. There's a device-level setting in the mobile app to set Alexa's preferred system to Metric...
- Swizec 10y agoI know. It doesn't affect temperature for some reason. Or I'm growing senile and didn't actually try that when i thought I did.
- LeoPanthera 10y agoWorks for me. Mine started out giving me F but I switched it to C no problems.