alright hey everybody we're here with a new Garmin product it's been out for a
couple months which is the Garmin speak plus with Amazon Alexa this is the
higher-end version of the Garmin speak basically is an Amazon Alexa speaker
that you paired with your smartphone inside your vehicle and the plus aspect
is the integrated dash cam so we're gonna show you how I quickly get it set
up here on the truck and I'll show you the kind of the apps that I use so far
which is Garmin speak Garmin VirB and the Amazon Alexa app to get things going
so let's go take a look there it is inside the box you really only have the
device the USB to 12v cable and some very brief instructions as to where to
place the camera and once you have at the plugged in you got a couple buttons
here to manually activate Alexa and also on the other side you'll have an SD card
slot for memory it comes with four gigs so the which is
about 40 minutes of 1080 the video I can see here the camera still on so it will
respond to the Alexa app or ilex a name so let's show you quickly how I got this
set up here in in the truck so basically very simple I put it kind
of Center in Center next to the rear view mirror or the center mirror
basically the cable is just tucked underneath here and then just run it
through to the back and see here a little piece here that didn't get quite
tucked in you run it through there's a little bit of give here so you can jam
the wire in here and then you can run it underneath your weather stripping here
between the door and just go all the way down and once you get down to here you
can actually lift this up to access your wiring harnesses and run it through and
then what I did here I just pass it through put it underneath the seat goes
underneath the seat and goes underneath goes up the side console
and in this case here just goes in into there we won't go through the setup
wizard it's fairly straightforward but by default video will start recording
once it turns on and we using your smartphone data plan it will access
alexa services and you can also use garmin turn-by-turn navigation so let's
do some navigating alexa ask garmin to navigate to Oldfield Provincial Park
I found a result Oakfield Provincial Park is seven kilometres away on
Oakfield Park Road is that okay yes
getting directions you should arrive at 8:48 continue to highway two you're
navigating with Garmin it will give you the speed limit alerts and also the lane
changes alert fossil proximity one of the features I really enjoy is as you're
getting close to a turn activity the ring slowly fills up with green and if
you need to do a turn you'll get that side amber bar so those are nice for
visual cues let's actually look at some actual - footage here and you can see
the data overlay fields that you can put on top of the video date coordinates and
speed very nice and when you're accessing the alexa features you just
say alexa ask garmin so let's do some stuff here alexa asked garmin to save
video
okay video saved Alexa ask Garmin to take a picture okay let's look at some
of the apps we're using speak verb and Alexa speak is really the gateway of
using the device to the rest of your phone here you can do a couple of things
when it's connected we'll take a look at the virb in the second here but just to
let you know it gives you the status of the recording you can view the gallery
you can manually save video or take a picture you get your for collision lane
departure or the go alert driver assistance and you can also add some
Alexa skill you can also use garmin to find some places i found several results
important is this 4.3 kilometers away on highway 2 is that okay and then you can
just say yes no or cancel search search cancelled alright so with that we can
simply use the app to save a video i think it's about a minute video or save
a picture and then we can use the virb app to connect via Wi-Fi to the camera
so they can download it to our phone so let's do this right now
we'll hit continue and we're gonna switch to Wi-Fi the camera becomes
pretty much an operative one you want to connect via Wi-Fi so you can access the
files on it and once you have VirB installed there's really no
configuration the wizard as long as you have speak and verb kind of installed
everything kind of happens automatically for the first time and it's really
really simple okay here's our gallery of footage that we've recorded last day or
two and simply can either tap open one of the items to you should view the
image or view the video you can sort so let's just open something up here and
let's tap on the X you can also use the app to
visualize or position our camera to make sure that we have a properly aligned to
the truck alright so now let's say you want to share video let's say include a
video in this video so let's tap on the share button in let's see what you know
how much of this footage you want to keep I want to bring all of it so we're
gonna tap on next and now this is the part that takes a little while to
download takes a few minutes to transfer via Wi-Fi
once it's done you got two buttons which is the download to your phone role or
you can use the share which shares using the default options on your phone either
iPhone or Android and let's flip back now to add Amazon Alexa skills we need
the Amazon Alexa app installed so that's why I said you get three apps that you
need installed in here this is nice to get things kind of set up I personally
like to go under the skills and try to find something new to put on I like news
I like the trivia I also like a few other things so let's go under settings
here and that's where you'll find most of it music in media for example if you
have a Prime membership you have access to Amazon music as your default
station default music library Spotify but it doesn't seem to be working right
now with Garmin speak alright hey guys that's about it for the Garmin speak
plus let me know in the comments what you think about this device some of the
other Alexa skills you have it renting in other general comments so we'll talk
to you guys next time