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Alexa - tell me some top tips

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  • Ms_Chocaholic
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    You can also ask it to bark like a dog, makes the pooch very confused lol
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    edited 22 January 2022 at 9:54PM
    comeandgo said:
    Have you paid to get Amazon music unlimited?  It does make a big difference to what you can hear.
    No, because we are connected to all the music we've already bought (don't ask me how, it's pixies or magic, via his laptop? )So Amazon music is essentially an added bonus. It just seems to be an issue with pronunciation. 
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  • Misslayed
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    You can also ask it to bark like a dog, makes the pooch very confused lol
    Our Patterjack doesn't need any more excuses to do woofin!
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  • McKneff
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    Converting feet and inches to metrs.

    Weights and measures etc
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
  • GDB2222
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    Le_Kirk said:
    Combined with Smart plugs and programming a routine, I use my key phrase to tell her I am going to bed and she turns the lights off sequentially giving me just enough time to get upstairs.  On Friday when I go out, I have written another routine with a key phrase for Mrs Le_Kirk to use that turns off a couple of lights and leaves enough on for me to see when I come home.  I thought it would be good to use her for help with the general knowledge crossword at the week-end (only the answers to clues we cannot work out) but I am tired of hearing "I am sorry, I don't know that".
    We have both an Alexa and a Hey Google. I was surprised to find that Hey Google is just as bad at answering crossword clues.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • quoia
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    Alexa, up up down down left right left right B A start. 
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  • lammy82
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    I use Alexa to weigh things that are too light for the bathroom scales (which are handily located within earshot of Alexa).

    Stand on scales holding item.

    "Alexa, what is 83.25 kilos minus (step off scales) 74.60 kilos"?

  • kimwp
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    lammy82 said:
    I use Alexa to weigh things that are too light for the bathroom scales (which are handily located within earshot of Alexa).

    Stand on scales holding item.

    "Alexa, what is 83.25 kilos minus (step off scales) 74.60 kilos"?

    Ooh, this is how I weigh my cats, but without Google's help, I'm repeating the number in my head so I don't forget it, good tip!
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  • cx6
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    If only they taught subtraction at schools. Maybe one day ..
  • kimwp
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    cx6 said:
    If only they taught subtraction at schools. Maybe one day ..
    It's not subtraction that's the issue, it's remembering the number 😆
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