Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1236
Hey, hey Teri here, it is Thursday and today I want to follow up on the flash briefing from yesterday when we talked a little bit about the new types of routines that you can have, which are all about Alexa reacting to some type of sound that Alexa can hear in the environment.
And today I want to focus in on the dog barking sounds, so this is really interesting, again, you go into your Alexa app, you click on More at the bottom, you click on routines, and then you click on the plus sign at the top.
You click on Enter Routine Name so you can give it a routine names such as dog barking, whatever you want.
Then you click on when this happens and you’ll see the sound detection option you click that and if you click on the first one dog barking, what this does is it allows Alexa to detect when a dog is barking during a specified time period.
So you click on that, then you can click on which device you want this to come from, so if your dog is in a particular room, then you can set it to be applicable to the devices in the room.
Now you could set up multiple routines if you want this to apply to multiple Echo devices, unfortunately, in my testing, you can’t set multiple Echo devices with a single routine, so you’d have to duplicate the routine.
The bottom line is that there’s so much you can do and this is just the tip of the iceberg with these routines
Nevertheless, you click on the device, you click Next and now you can choose the time when you want this to be active, so if you want it to be active on weekdays, you can choose that you can choose the time.
And then you can also choose amount of time that you can suppress the routine for, meaning if Alexa does react to the dog barking, how long will Alexa essentially not respond to that before it is activated again.
So it’s allowing you to set a timer essentially, such that Alexa does not run the routine, you know every two seconds when the dog is barking.
So you can do that then you can add an action and there’s all different kinds of actions that you can add, you can add a messaging action so that you could get a message sent to your Alexa app if your dog is barking.
You can even add sounds, so if your dog is barking, you can have Alexa bark back, I’m not sure if that’s mean or maybe it’s keeping your dog company anyway.
The bottom line is that there’s so much you can do and this is just the tip of the iceberg with these routines.
So that’s the one for today and we’ll cover some other ones shortly, alright? Have a great day, talk to you soon.
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