Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #686
Alright. Welcome to the first Sunday of 2020. And again, if you’ve been following along, you know that on Sundays, I do my best to answer questions from the community.
A lot of these questions come from emails or messages that are sent to me directly and some of them come from questions that have been asked in the Facebook group, where there’s a lot of engagement, shows there’s a lot of people that are interested in this question.
Well, today’s comes from the Facebook group, and by the way, if you’re not a member of our Facebook group, we are approaching 2000 people in that group, and you can join it at AlexainCanada.ca/Community.
The question comes from William Penney and he says, “My wife got an Echo Dot for Christmas, and was wondering if she can call hers, which is located in the bedroom, a different name than the original one we purchased. It is located relatively close to the bedroom. Is there a way to use two different wake words?”
And, first of all, as I love to recognize those in the community that helped out. A number of people chimed in there with a response.
Those include Terry Williams, Joel Vandal, and Patrick Doyle. So thank you, all of you, for your responses.
The answer was answered very nicely by all of you.
You can change the wake words but they’re limited.
Basically, the answer is yes you can, you can change the wake words, but they’re limited.
So, you have to go in through your app, through your Alexa app, and you can choose between Alexa as we know, but you can also set it to Computer, Echo or Amazon.
So, if you have two devices that are in close proximity and you want to talk to one particular device, that can be a nice way to do it.
In theory, Alexa, the technology behind it should be able to distinguish which device you are closer to, and be able to know that you are speaking to that particular device, if you actually have the wake words the same on both devices, but in practice, it doesn’t always work as well.
So if you want to set up a foolproof way of doing that, that would be to do what you just described, William, and that is to change the wake words of the two devices.
You can totally do that, and that’s a one way to solve the problem that you’re suggesting there.
So, there you go. Thank you very much for the question, William.
Thank you for all your answers as mentioned, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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