I know of two HN previous discussions on the topic, I suggest going through them as they're full of good advice: 3 months ago, 133 comments: https://news.ycomb

I know of two HN previous discussions on the topic, I suggest going through them as they're full of good advice: 3 months ago, 133 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293002 8 years ago, 81 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546311 My mom never got the hang out of using her iPhone with VoiceOver, but she uses Siri regularly ("Hey Siri, send a new WhatsApp message to Tom"). Siri is sometimes annoying because it will answer "this is what I found, take a look" which, unfortunate wording aside, is difficult for her to follow because (again) she never really got the hang of touch-only iPhone and therefore cannot scroll well through the options. It depends on how technical your grandfather is. I wanted to set an Alexa as a music+podcasts+audiobooks station but the awful integration between Alexa in Spanish and Kindle cut that short. But you may have better luck.