I like my google home better then the echo someone gave me. I set all the bass, mids, and highs, to max settings on both my google home, and my echo, and my google home sounds better than my echo. I also get more music on my google home since I can access youtube on my google home, and you can't get access to youtube on the echo devices any more.
On 3/7/21, Fanus Buys <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Sieghard and list > The other thing which disappoints me about the echo show is that I hoped > that if one use the translate function or read a Kindle book that the text > would show on the screen but this does not happen. > Regards > Fanus > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: New Echo > > You have to understand the way these devices work. > The Alexa app on your phone is primarily an interface to adjust settings on > your Echo speaker, add skills and so on. Yes, it is to some extend also > allowing you to use your iPhone like an Alexa speaker, e.g. ask questions or > give commands just as you would to your Echo speaker. > As far as playing books on your Echo speaker which in fact are playing on > your phone like BARD, in this case you basically use yur Echo speaker just > like you would any Bluetooth speaker, e.g. you pair it to your phone and the > whatever you play on your phone plays via your Echo. But because the Echo is > a smartspeaker you can obviously take it one step further, i.e. once a book > is playing you can ask your speaker to pause or resume or skip forward or > back, on a regular Bluetooth speaker you would do these things by pressing > the appropriate button. But I don't think you can pair your Echo to your > phone and then tell it to play a BARD book unless you first start the book > in your BARD app. > Audible is a different matter because Amazon owns Audible hence it's very > seamlessly integrated into Echo speakers and as long as you are signed into > your speaker with the same Amazon account you use for Audible the Alexa > assistant has access to your Audible library. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > deidre muccio > Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: New Echo > > Joshua, > Wow this just opened up a new door for me! Thank you. I knew I was missing > something that should’ve been doable. Pairing it, Bluetooth, got it. I > might’ve seen that somewhere in settings and wasn’t sure exactly what it > would be doing, but if you say it can do it I’m sure it can do it.Admitte > admittedly I was confused about why I could run the echo even without > Bluetooth since I thought it was indeed linked to my phone via the Alexa > app. I don’t have Bluetooth on. But I guess I’ll turn it on if I wanna do > something like have it read me a Bard book. Thank you again. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 6, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Hendrickson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I can use my google home to easily access bard mobile on my iPhone if >> I wish. I'm sure the echo is the same. What you do, is first tell >> your echo to connect. It will then say searching, then should connect >> to your iPhone. Note, you must first make sure that you have paired >> your echo to your iPhone in order for this to work. Next, open bard >> mobile app on your iPhone. Hit your play button of your bard mobile >> app and your book will begin to play. Now, stop playback of your bard >> book. Now, tell your echo to play, and your bard book will begin to >> play. You can do things like say stop and your book will stop, if you >> tell your echo next or back, then your bard book will go forward or >> back by chapter if the mark-up in the book is by chapter. Good luck. >> >>> On 3/6/21, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You must be buying really tiny cantaloupes *smile* I would say the >>> fourth gen Echo is more like a slightly larger tennis ball, sorry, >>> I'm not too familiar with baseball, but I think that is more like it. >>> I bought my wife the version which has a clock display which she >>> loves because if she wakes up at night she can just glance at it to >>> know what time it is. >>> At my office I just set up the Echo Show 5 which is the smallest Echo >>> with a screen and I primarily bought it because it makes it very easy >>> to connect to my ring video doorbell with just a voice command. >>> However, you still wouldn't be able to just play movies, yes, you >>> could set up YouTube I think, but if you want to use it you would be >>> better off with a Google smart speaker with screen since Google owns >>> YouTube and it's already integrated. I am not sure about Amazon prime >>> Video on the Echo Show, we just never use it for that. With a Google >>> speaker with screen, whatever they call it, you can also play >>> anything on your iPhone like Netflix or in the TV app and send it to the >>> Google via Chromecast. >>> >>> >>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf >>> Of deidre muccio >>> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:06 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: Daniel Macdonald <[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]> wrote: >>> Helli, >>> >>> 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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