Jestjoan
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Don't mean to go too far off topic, but...
For those that own the Echo, do you like it? What would you think of this for elderly in-laws that aren't very good with a computer? Seems that if they could break the ice with it, for a non-computer user, this could be handly.
Yes? No?
Don't mean to go too far off topic, but...
For those that own the Echo, do you like it? What would you think of this for elderly in-laws that aren't very good with a computer? Seems that if they could break the ice with it, for a non-computer user, this could be handly.
Yes? No?
Well, I like it a lot., but you need to set it up for different things. I have had it for many months now and my husband only is just getting around to setting it up for various functions like the emergency alert, my horoscope, etc. You need to be computer literate for that. You also have to be patient and be conscious of how you ask Alexa the questions or she won't understand you.
Easy to use once set up for things like the weather, or telling a joke, or making a shopping list- though- again- the shopping list has to get set up to go to your computer as either an email, so you can print it, or to your phone app for when you go shopping.
It helps to be a Prime member so you can have her play music in your Prime library, but you can also add your own music- again- via computer first. You can ask her to just play various categories of music, like jazz, for instance and she will just start playing different songs. Then, all you have to do is ask her to play it- but you have to ask in a certain way. I also use her to play a talk radio station I like from I Heart Radio.
She can play bingo and other games and she is already set to look things up on Wikepedia. The latest news also. And she will tell you a joke if you ask her. I also use her to time my cooking.
I guess the set up would be an issue, unless someone could do it for them.
''What emergency alert?
What does Alexa give you that Siri doesn't????
...I love the shopping list feature. I can be in my kitchen and notice, for example, that I am out of milk and just ask her to put it on my list and then it appears on my phone for when I go to the supermarket.
Don't mean to go too far off topic, but...
For those that own the Echo, do you like it? What would you think of this for elderly in-laws that aren't very good with a computer? Seems that if they could break the ice with it, for a non-computer user, this could be handly.
Yes? No?