Hi Billy
You don't have to use the remote unless you are going to be in a different
part of the house. The microphones are excellent on the Echo.
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thanks Mo, I will do just that.
Will I need the remote control sold by amazon as well?, Billy
On 14/11/2016 09:41, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
hi billy. go for the dot. that way you're not shelling out too muchtracks.
and you can test the device first to see if you like it.
cheers,
Mo.
On 14/11/2016 09:34, billy inglis wrote:
hi Pete, I'm thinking of purchasing one of the echoes. Not sure which
one to go for.
Question. Would you advise also buying the Alexa remote control?,
Billy
On 30/09/2016 16:11, pete gurney wrote:
hi carol,
firstly the size.
the echo is roughly the size of a tube of pringles.
it's just over 3 inches in diameter and just over 9 inches tall.
it only has 2 buttons on it on the top one with a dot on that can be
used to activate Alexa instead of speaking and the other button is
used to switch the microphones on and off if you don't want her to
listen to you.
this could be handy as last night i was watching coronation street
and kathie said to alex i'm sorry and the echo woke up and said
that's ok theres no need to appologise.
theres a ring of led lights around the top and at first glance you
would think that is all it is but the entire ring of lights is the
volume control witch you can twist clockwise or anti clockwise.
you don't need to use this as you can just tell Alexa to set the
volume from 1 to 10.
the speaker in the echo is pretty good and goes to a pretty high volume.
there is an alternative to the echo that will be out next month
which is called the amazon dot.
this is the same diameter as the echo but is only an inch and a
quarter tall.
it still has a speaker in it but obviously much quieter but other
than that it still does everything that the echo can do.
this model does have audio out connection so you can connect better
speakers to it if you want to and of course the big difference is
that this smaller model costs just under £50 compared to the echo
costing just under £150.
as far as tv and music are concerned i don't know if it can
broadcast tv channels other than if someone creates one of the
scripts to do this as an add-on and i haven't looked closely enough
in that catagory yet but i suspect it's going to be more about movie
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if you have a prime account with amazon you get access to i believe
over a million songs just by saying the title or artist.
included with your echo is free storage for 250 tracks that you can
upload to their server and then play just by telling Alexa to play them.
and finally you can pay to have much more storage space which allows
you to upload tens of thousands of tracks to control with Alexa but
i haven't checked what the cost of that is yet.
pete.
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