Text Alexa

Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1429

Hey, hey. Teri here. Happy Monday. Hope your week is off to a great start. I want to tell you about a new feature that I discovered in the Alexa app today.

This is the ability to text Alexa now. So you don’t have to speak to Alexa. If you’d rather text her (And there might be various reasons for that)

Perhaps you are somewhere where you don’t want to speak out loud, and you just want to type in a question and get a quick answer. You can now do that.

The way that you do that is you go into your Alexa app (Assuming you have the latest version of the app.

So, you do have to download the latest version of the app) And once you’ve done that, when you go into the app, you’ll see in the top left corner, a little keyboard icon, you click on that.

And then you can see that it says, “Hi. Alexa here. Happy to help. Ask me anything or search the app.”

I guess we’ll have to see how this plays out and what the use cases are for this

So, you can start to type in things. You can say, for example, “What time is sunrise”, and she’ll give you the response.

You can say things like, “Cancel my timer”, and then she will tell you if there are no timers set or which timer she cancels.

And it also takes you to other areas of the app. So, for example, a box came up that said to view the timers when I asked about canceling a timer.

So, there you go. Interesting. I guess we’ll have to see how this plays out and what the use cases are for this.

But nevertheless, you can now talk or text to Alexa and get your responses right in the app. So give it a shot. See what you think. There we are.

Alright! I’ll be back again tomorrow with some more news for you. Take care

Useful Resources

• List of Voice Assistant Commands
• Alexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in Canada
• Teri Fisher on Twitter
• Alexa in Canada on Twitter
• Alexa in Canada on Instagram
• Alexa in Canada Community Group on Facebook
• Please leave a review on the Skills Store!
• Shopping on Amazon.ca
• Create a Flash Briefing Tutorial – Free Tutorial to Create your own Flash Briefing
• Flash Briefing Formula – Your Complete Premium Step-By-Step Course to Launch a Successful Flash Briefing that Gets Found and Grows Your Brand

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1. Open your Alexa app and click on the Menu button > Settings > Flash Briefing.
2. Click on “Add Content” and search for “Voice in Canada”.
3. Click on “Voice in Canada” and the Enable button.

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