Just out of interest what skills are people using? I have the guardian
the telegraph and another shopping one I can't remember it now I don't
have to many skills yet thoughts.
On 26/10/2016 12:56, pete gurney wrote:
hi Mo,** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:-
no i've had no problem streaming to the Dot.
i've just said to it "alexa play radio bbc radio 4" and it started
playing straight away.
i followed this with "alexa play the carpenters" and she replied
shuffling the carpenters from your amazon music library and started
playing them.
and as steve said about the echo it is deffinately a bluetooth speaker
as i just paired my iphone to the echo fine.
as paul and carol said the app is very slugish especially when setting
the speakers up and when setting up skills but hopefully this will
improve with updates.
i found the best way of going down the lists of skills was to go to the
bottom of the list and work my way back up this way i could access every
skill consecutively until i reached the top, but if i tried to go down
the lists it kept jumping back to the topp periodically.
pete.
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:19:40 +0100
Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mobeeniqbal@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Pete.
I read on a review that it is not possible to use the dot to stream
radio because of its small size. Amazon would rather you connect
your bluetooth speakers or speakers to the audio out jack. Is this
true?
Cheers,
Mo.
On 26/10/2016 12:10, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi Pete,
I don’t believe the Amazon Echo is a Bluetooth speaker. I
certainly can’t connect my phone to it.
I think the Dot and Tap are though.
All the best
Steve
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*Subject:* [access-uk] Re: amazon Echo, Again!
hi alistair,
the dot is available from amazon in the UK.
i have both the echo and the dot and apart from their size and
speaker volume they are both capable of doing the same things as
to regard of how you control them and the skills you can install.
the main differences are that the echo is around 9 inches tall
while the dot is only 1.3 inches, the echo has 2 buttons on the
top the wake button and a microphone mute button but the dot has 2
more buttons on the top volume up and down.
the dot also has a 3.5 audio out jack on the back which the echo
does not.
they both have bluetooth, which i haven't used yet, but i think
the difference is that the echo's bluetooth is for connecting to
smart phones and such like so you can transmit the sound from the
phone via the echo's speaker while the blutooth in the dot is just
for transmitting from the dot to a bluetooth speaker.
i'm sure your grandson would enjoy either as there are hundreds
of skills that you can install allowing you to do varying
things just by speaking to them.
you can ask it anything you would normally look up in an
encyclopedia, ask it to solve a mathmatical problem, ask about the
weather or ask about places in the world and much much more.
i have been quite supprised by just how loud the speaker in the
little dot goes and i haven't bothered connecting any external
speaker to it either wired or by bluetooth.
obviously the speaker in the echo is much louder but unless you
want to use it as a replacement for a hi-fi the dot is more than
adequate for asking questions, using as a timer/alarm clock or
even as a bedside radio/music player.
pete.
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<mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:43:46 +0100
"alistair" <alistair.kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:alistair.kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I’m aware there has been considerable discussion about this
product on list and I note that the echo has a baby brother, I
think it is “the dot”? As I have a blue tooth speaker already
would there be any difference in performance between the dot
and the actual Echo? I have searched Amazon but can’t see it
listed as a product, is it available in the UK? Also, and
lastly, lol! Would there be any educational value for young
folks? My grandson is 8 extremely bright, (don’t know where he
gets it from) and is very tech savvy and has a enquiring mind!
thanks
alistair
