amazon echo
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How To Stop A Recording From Waking Alexa
Lifehacker recently published a video in which two subjects test the functions of an Amazon Echo. Soon after, our Senior Technology Editor, David Murphy alerted the video team that anyone watching the video at home through speakers would find their Echo repeatedly activated each time someone in the video spoke the wake word “Alexa.”
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How To Get Alexa To Read Your Emails, And Tell You If ‘That’ Message Has Arrived
Amazon has rolled out a new email-reading feature to its virtual assistant that allows it to read a summary of your new and important messages from the last 24 hours. When it does, you can then opt to read, reply to, delete, or archive those messages, all without powering on your actual computer.
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How To Change Alexa’s Wake Word To Something Other Than ‘Alexa’
If you have an Amazon Echo device, then you’ve likely gotten pretty used to saying “Alexa” whenever you want it to do something.
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Amazon Leapfrogs Google And Apple In Home Automation
Amazon held a hardware event last night, releasing a pile of new products to drive home automation. The Echo range received a massive boost but a number of other accessories including cameras, smartplugs and even a microwave oven. And while not every product will make it to Australia – we won’t be getting the microwave…