Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1456 Hello, hello. Happy Super Bowl day. If you’re watching the game, I hope you have a lot of fun. Should be a good time. Today I want to answer questions from the community. Often we have these questions coming out of our Facebook community. If you’re not part of that, please feel free to join us at VoiceinCanada.ca/Community. So, this question, to be honest, does not come from the Facebook community. It’s just in general. I’ve often been asked about the Echo Wall Clock because this is something that a lot of people don’t necessarily realize they can get. Or ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1455 Hey, hey. Teri here. It is Saturday and that means we get to share some commands and fun things you can say to Alexa. Now with it being Super Bowl weekend, it makes sense that we jump into some Super Bowl commands. So let’s get right to it. Alright? Number one. You can say, “Alexa, who’s going to win the big game?” and see who she thinks it’s going to take at all. Number two, you can get some football jokes simply by saying, “Alexa, tell me a football joke.” Complete with sound effects, she will tell everybody on your Echo network about the latest touchd ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1454 Hello, hello. Teri here. Happy Friday. Hope you’re doing well. Continuing along with the theme of cars and voice technology this week, I wanted to share a particular skill and an app that we can use to control a Tesla, if you have a Tesla vehicle. Now, first of all, the skill is called “My Tesla”. It’s an unofficial Tesla skill. So it’s not created by Tesla. What this does allow you to do is to find out the status of your car with regards to a number of different parameters by voice. So, getting the charge status, getting the climate status, setting the c ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1453 Hello, hello. Teri here. In this flash briefing, we’re going to continue on with the theme of cars that are now including Alexa in their infotainment systems. Earlier this week, we talked about some other manufacturers. But today I want to tell you about the 2023 Alfa Romeo Tonale. I’ve seen some pictures of this car. It’s actually quite nice looking. It’s a compact SUV, and it has Alexa built into the infotainment system. So, as usual, you can do all the things that you’d normally expect. That’s for music, podcasts, audiobooks, adding items to your to-do ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1452 Hey there. Hope you’re doing well. It’s Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. As you know, the Superbowl is happening this weekend. But, you know what else comes with the Super Bowl? It’s that whole catalog of incredible ads that everybody makes a big fuss about. As you may know, Alexa has had her own ad for a number of years now in the Superbowl, and they just put out the teaser now for the ad for Alexa. I think it’s pretty funny. It features Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. I think you should check it out. It’s that whole catalog of incredible ads that everybo ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1451 Hey, hey. Teri here. Hope all is well. Today I want to talk a little about voice purchasing with our Alexa devices. If you want to enable voice purchasing, here’s how you do it. You go into your app, you click on Settings, then you click on Account Settings, then you will see Voice Purchasing. And now you have the option of turning on the switch that will allow you to purchase things by voice. When you do that, you then have a couple of other options. You can do a purchase confirmation, which means that you will have to say some type of code in order for ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1450 Hello, hello. Teri here. Happy Monday. Hope your week is off to a great start. Today I want to tell you about the latest car to include Alexa directly in the infotainment system. These are the existing and new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles that have the Pivi Pro Infotainment System. So, owners of those vehicles that have that infotainment system (Jaguar and Land Rover brand) will be able to enjoy the benefits of Alexa with an over-the-air software update. This is pretty cool. It will update it and then you can use Alexa in the typical ways that you are f ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1449 Hello, hello. Happy Sunday. Hope you’re doing well. As always, Sunday is a day to answer questions from you, from the community. And if you want to be part of our community, just feel free to join us at VoiceinCanada.ca/Community. And you can join our Facebook group right there. Now, for today, I want to answer a question from Sherry Oleniuk. She says, “I just received my Echo Show 8. Is there a way to stop it from flashing onto a new screen every 10 seconds? I downloaded some pics, and I have them showing every other photo and it’s driving me crazy?” So ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1448 Well, hello there. Good Saturday. Hope you’re doing well. February is a very important month. It is Black History Month. And I wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge that. Typically on Saturdays, we talk about some commands that you can say to Alexa. And today, I just want to share a couple of things that you can say to honor Black History Month. The first one is, of course, you can simply ask Alexa, “What is Black History Month?” And she will give you a little bit of the history behind that. Which is great. Some of which are some wonderful black ..read more

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1447 Hello, hello. Teri here. Happy Friday. Hope your week has gone really, really well. As you know, from time to time, I like to highlight some deals that are on Amazon specifically with regards to the Echo devices. There are some deals going on right now. So if you have been thinking about picking up an Echo device, now may be the time to check it out. Here are a couple of the deals that I found and some of the prices. The Echo Dot. So the small spherical device is normally $70, and it’s on for $40. The regular Echo device or a little bit bigger spherical d ..read more