You do not need Voice Control. You can just set up Hey Siri, or just hold the home button and ask Siri to do that. Voice Control is really intended for people who cannot use their fingers effectively. There may be some features you would like, but opening apps, etc., can be done more easily just with Siri. HTH,
Richard Ralph's Observation: It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object<>to realize that you are in a hurry. My web site, www.turner42.com<http://www.turner42.com> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: New Echo Patti No, I cannot watch or listen to movies on the Echo. Someone kindly pointed out it would not play movies and I would need a device with a screen! Apple is not thinking people want to listen to movies not look at them with their eyes! I amnew to this which is why I was imagining the device could do all kinds of things that it was not designed to do! For instance, I thought I could ask Alexa to open anapp on my phone, such as BARD, butno that is not it's job. I could however set up Voice Control on my phone and then use Hey Siri to do that withoutmy having to touch the phone. Now you see I'm getting into having too many options territory, and to sort it all out, takes time and energy, and I'm already frazzled from spending a day with the Echo. I did get it to play a Greg Brown mix, and a local radio program, and podcast I like from today, and it is reading my new mail, and I am sending my brother's Echo messages which I do as recordings, and I pulled up an obscure Ice Cube song and played it with no problem at all with the Echo finding it. I can say that voice over is not reading everything in the app unless the instructions I am getting from several different places are incorrect. For example the first step to get to a specific place was tohit on a "menu" button at thetop left of the AlexaApp. There is no spoken "menu" button that I can find on the opening page of the app. I think I had the Home Tab selected and tried another Tab to see if one would appear. No buttons or links in the roter appear when I am on any given page I've been on within the Alexa app so far. Does this mean that much of the app is not accessible? I need to give this a rest and get on with the rest of my day! Deidre From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:59 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: New Echo How can you watch movies on the echo, I mean listen, do you have it paired to an Amazon Firestick or something? Patti From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of deidre muccio Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:06 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Macdonald <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: New Echo I believe what I have is an echo fourth generation. It's about the size of a cantaloupe. No it does not have a screen. Maybe I will get a little one with a tiny screen or the smaller screen so that I can just watch movies without having to touch my phone. Thanks for cluing me into what was should've been obvious. Anyway I'm playing around with this looking at commands seeing I still have a lot of work to do to streamline it's recognizing the specific podcast and things like that that I want to play. This morning it's doing a pretty good job of doing it, Meaning I'm getting the syntax down that Alexa is best at recognizing. I meant to write listen to movies not watch since I wouldn't be able to see a thing on any screen. Deirdre Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Daniel MacDonald <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The dot to dot podcast is a great one to listen to. It[s demos of various echo skills. Also for more in-depth demos, the echo show podcast is good. It would help us if we new what kind of Echo you have. As far as enabling video skills, that is limited to echos with screens, the echo show and it's variants, and the echo spot. The echo show comes in five, eight, and ten inch sizes. The only echo you can watch Amazon is the echo show. To enable some skills, go to the amazon Alexa app to more. You'll find an area called skills and games. You can also enable skills by voice if you know the skill name. On Mar 3, 2021, at 10:15 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello all, Someone gave me a gift of a new Echo. Some basic set up has been done today. I've read some helpful info from emails Amazon keeps sending me and I've been on the Amazon site which gives a list of things to look into. Some of what I am told to do isn't fool proof, perhaps due to human error. I cant seem to get at the place having to do with enabling video such as Prime Video or Netflix. I've got both Apps on the phone and naively thought I could use Alexa to activate those apps. It doesn't seem to work that way! I followed instructions from a hard file as well as where Alexa tole me to look, that were supposed to get me to TV and Movies under Skills and Games, I think, but I never got there. Under the section in settings for Communication, I did check off various music services and podcasts and Tune In stations I listen to and Alexa was able to find those. I can't however find the place to do that with video, TV and/or movies I am subscribed to. I really did imagine that I could tell Alexa to do things like open Bard and continue reading what I was reading last. I assumed the Echo device was totally privy to everything on my phone, as if it had a mirror image of it. Hmmmm, I'm smiling. 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