Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1235
Hey, hey Teri here with your flash briefing, and I have a really cool one for you today.
I have to give a huge shout out to Sand Trap, as she is known on on Twitter and if you’re not following Sand Trap, just look her up.
She sent me a message and I was not aware of this, this is brand new but you can now do sound detection routines, now it is a beta, according to Amazon, but let me explain to you what this is.
As you may know, when you do routines, you can set up certain things to happen as a result of you saying something or just on a particular schedule and now there is a new type of trigger for the routines.
When you go into your Alexa app, and you click on the More button at the bottom and you click on then Routines and you click on the plus button to add a new new routine, you will see that you have the option of clicking on when this happens.
Now when you do that, there is a new option there, there is a sound detection option and this is a beta release at this point it says so in parentheses there.
I will have to look into these in a little more detail and cover each of these options a little bit more
When you click on that, you are able to then set up a particular routine that will happen during a specified time frame or a range of times that will result in Alexa triggering something if Alexa hears, for example, a dog barking, a baby crying, snoring or coughing.
And so what this allows you to do is now have some automation in your home that if any of those sounds are happening, automatically something happened.
So for example, if it hears the baby crying, you can have the lights turn on, if it hears a dog barking, it could activate a camera or something like that.
So there are lots and lots of different things that we can do now with this, so this is really, really exciting, again, big shout out to Sand Trap, I will have to look into these in a little more detail and cover each of these options a little bit more in upcoming flash briefing.
So stay tuned for that, for now, feel free to check it out, I think this is very cool as lots of possibility here.
Alright, talk to you again really soon.
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