*Here's a nifty feature available now on the Echo.*
A New Feature makes Amazon Echo Offers New Option to the Blind
the Amazon Echo Show More Useful for Blind Users
J.J. Meddaugh <https://www.blindbargains.com/aboutauthor.php?u=1> Sep 23,
2019 11:24 PM ET
If you have an Amazon Echo Show, it now comes with a new trick that can help
you identify products.
The Show and Tell feature, rolling out today, allows you to say "Alexa, what
am I holding?" which will prompt the device to attempt to identify the can,
bottle, or item that is being held in front of its camera. Alexa will give
audio cues to help you focus the item and then give its description if it
identifies it.
You'll need the full-size 1st
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.a
mazon.com%2FAmazon-Echo-Show-Alexa-Enabled-White%2Fdp%2FB010CEHQTG&tag=blinb
arg-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325> or 2nd generation
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.a
mazon.com%2FAll-new-Echo-Show-2nd-Gen%2Fdp%2FB077SXWSRP&tag=blinbarg-20&link
Code=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325> Echo Show or the smaller and more
affordable Echo Show 5
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.a
mazon.com%2FIntroducing-Echo-Show-Compact-Sandstone%2Fdp%2FB07HZJ64WD&tag=bl
inbarg-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325> to take advantage of this
feature. You can learn more and watch a video from this blog post
<https://blog.aboutamazon.com/devices/alexa-what-am-i-holding>
Source: Alexa, What am I Holding? - Amazon Blog
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