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My use case is small children and music. It's incredibly convenient to say "alexa, play songs by pink fong" or whatever they're in the mood for, while cleaning
by mysterydip 6y ago
My use case is small children and music. It's incredibly convenient to say "alexa, play songs by pink fong" or whatever they're in the mood for, while cleaning or cooking or what have you, compared to getting a phone or tablet out and browsing to the music app and trying to find the same song or playlist.
Additionally, my oldest child can put music on for herself with her voice, but can't read or spell enough to do it otherwise.
- user5994461 6y agoSame, only seen one alexa at a friends with a child. They use it to play music. Alexa play christmas songs. Alexa pause. Alexa resume. That's all.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYou could have this without the potential online security nightmare. I had an offline voice control WinAmp plugin ~15 years ago.
- mysterydip 6y agoIt has access to everything on amazon music, a much larger playlist than anything I own. I can also say "play show tunes" or "play 80s" and it will do that. I know about homebrew options. I've tried some of them. The problem is convincing others. They want something that works every time all the time, not something I have to fiddle with every so often. As for the security, it was my concern from day one, but when laypeople see the convenience and not some hidden boogeyman, you can't convince them otherwise. I lost that argument to my wife and it wasn't a hill I chose to die on. I'm just careful what I say openly, as you should anywhere. Plus we all carry phones around already.