- Hey, what's going on everyone?
Today, we're going to be talking about 10 surprising
things you did not know you could do
with your Echo device.
So, stay tuned.
(upbeat music)
Hey everyone, welcome back to another video.
Whether you've been in the Amazon environment for a while
or you are brand new, hopefully there is something
you are going to learn from the list
that I compiled today.
Now I'm gonna do my best in this video
not to use the default wake word.
If I do, I will beep it out
so I don't activate any of your devices,
but with that said, let's get started.
All right, so in no particular order,
starting off at number one,
we have delete all Amazon voice recordings.
That's right; you guys may not have realized this,
but everything that you say
to your Amazon devices is recorded.
It is saved to the Amazon cloud,
and they use that to better determine
your likes and dislikes so that your devices
can better cater to you, or so they say.
Another reason they save your recordings
is so that the voice assistant can learn your voice
and how you pronounce and say things
to give you a better experience using this.
To delete these items, you can either say it
directly to the device by saying delete everything
I said today, or you can go into the app
or the website.
To go into the app, you would load up the Amazon app.
In the top left corner, you would hit on the menu,
go to settings, and then go to Alexa privacy.
From there you can go to review voice history,
and then delete all the items from there.
Next up on the list is changing your device's wake word.
So we have the standard Alexa for waking up your device.
But did you guys know that you have other options
to wake your device up?
If you load up the app, go to menu, settings,
and then device settings, you can select
each individual device that you have and set a different
wake word for each one of them.
Or select the same wake word for all of them.
The other three options that you have
are Echo, Amazon, and Computer.
Number three we have on the list is brief mode.
So you know how if you're talking to your device,
and it repeats back everything that you say
or repeats back what song is playing
or what movie's gonna play,
and it just seems really drawn out?
What you can do is you can go into settings
and enable brief mode.
What it'll do is it'll actually remove
all that extra talking that it does,
and then just respond back to you with a ding.
For example, if I were to tell my device
to turn off the master bedroom lights,
instead of it repeating back to me, okay,
I would just get a ding, and the lights would go off.
So that's a cool feature to have
if you're tired of listening to the devices
talking back to you.
Computer, turn on the master bedroom lights.
- Okay. - [Host] Computer,
enable brief mode.
- Okay; instead of me talking, sometimes, you'll
hear only this.
(techno dinging)
- Computer turn on the master bedroom lights.
(techno dinging)
So did you guys know that you can whisper
to your Amazon devices?
This is something that was brought to the Echo devices
a few months ago.
And it's been really awesome for my Echo Show five
that I have in the bedroom.
So now, if I try to talk to the device,
instead of it blasting back to me,
if it hears me whispering to it,
it will whisper back to me.
Computer, what's the weather?
- I think you just whispered to me.
From now on, when you whisper, I will whisper back.
You can always say turn off whisper mode.
Now, in Lake Forest, it's 58 degrees Fahrenheit,
with mostly sunny skies.
Today, you can look for lots of sun with a high of
61 degrees and a low of 41 degrees.
- This has been super handy when I want to enable
the good night routine at night which essentially
shuts everything off in my house,
and I can do that without having to wake my wife up.
All right, number five on the list is Alexa Guard.
What essentially this does is it arms your house
if you're leaving.
To activate this, you will need to go in to the settings
to turn it on, but once you have it on,
if you're leaving the house, you can just say,
Echo, I'm leaving, and it will turn on the Alexa Guard.
What this does is that it will listen for things
like smoke detectors going off or glass breaking.
If it hears these things, it will send you
a text notification, letting you know that something
is going on.
Another feature of Alexa Guard is that you can turn
on away lighting.
What it'll do is it'll mimic people being at home
by turning random lights on and off throughout the house
in the evening, so that way people think
that you're home.
Computer, I'm leaving.
(techno beeping)
- Good bye; I'll start guarding now.
- [Host] Computer, I'm home.
- Got it; I've stopped guarding your home.
- Okay, number six that we have on the list
is changing Alexa's voice speed.
Now do you find that when she responds,
it's either too fast or too slow?
Well now you can ask your device to either slow down
or speed up.
What you can say is, Alexa, speak slower.
Or, Alexa, speak faster.
Now there are seven options for the speed.
We've got the default one, which is right in the middle.
There are going to be two slower options,
and up to four faster options.
Every time you say slower or faster,
it's going to bring that increment up by one each time.
If you wanna go back to the default speed,
you can say, Alexa, speak at your default rate,
and it'll go back to what it originally was.
Computer, speak slower.
- Okay, I will speak at this speed from now on.
- [Host] Computer, speak slower.
- Okay, I will speak at this speed from now on.
- [Host] Computer, speak faster.
- Okay, I will speak at this speed from now on.
- [Host] Computer, speak faster.
- Okay, I will speak at this speed from now on.
- [Host] Computer, speak at your default rate.
- Okay, I will speak at my normal speed from now on.
- All right, number seven on the list is changing
the default music service that plays on your devices.
Now, obviously these being Amazon devices,
Amazon music is the default player
when you initially set these up.
But you can change it from anything from Pandora,
Spotify, I Heart Radio, and even Apple Music.
To change this, you will go in to the App.
Go to menu in the top left corner,
click on settings, and then from there you will select
Music and Podcasts.
In there you can set your default of what you want
your streaming service to be.
All right, number eight on the list is setting up
multi-room audio.
Now you can do this if you have several different
Echo devices and you want to connect them
up to all be playing music at the same time.
This brings a really cool music experience throughout
the house, and to do this, you would load up the app.
In the bottom right corner where the tabs are,
you're gonna click on devices,
and then in the top right corner, there is a plus sign.
You're gonna click on that plus sign,
and then select setup multi-room audio.
From there you're gonna create a group name,
and then select all the devices you wanna be in that group.
So you can either select whole house or just downstairs
or just outside.
However you wanna set that up.
And then when you wanna play it,
you'll just tell your device,
play music in the whole house,
and it will do everything there.
To get it to stop, you will just say,
stop playing music on the whole house,
and it'll stop everything in that group.
All right, number nine on the list
is changing the equalizer for each device.
If you are not happy with the sounds
that are coming out of your devices,
you can change the equalizer on each device.
You can either verbally say it to the device.
It has three different settings that it can change:
the bass, the mid-range, and the treble.
So you can say, increase the base by one.
Or decrease the treble by two.
If you don't wanna talk to the device,
and you wanna use the app, you can also go in to the app,
select that individual device,
go to audio settings, and then from there,
you can go in there and tweak it so you can get
the perfect audio for what you're looking for.
All right, finally at number 10 on the list,
is changing Alexa's accent.
Now there are tons of different accents
that you can choose from by selecting
different languages and different countries.
What you would do is in the app,
you would go to the menu, go down to settings.
In settings, you would select your device settings,
and then from there, you would select the device
that you want.
And in that device settings, you can click on language.
Now there is a huge list of different accents
that you can choose from, and if you notice
that we're selecting this by device,
so you can set different accents for different devices.
And from there you can pick the accent
that you like the best.
With Amazon devices coming to more and more countries,
there are more and more languages being added all the time.
So you can always go back and see
what new stuff is being added.
Well, anyway, I hope this video
was helpful for you guys.
I hope you learned some new things about your
Amazon devices, and what they are capable of,
and what you can do with them.
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So I just bought this Samuel L. Jackson
celebrity voice and I wanted to test it out.
Computer, tell Sam to tell me a joke.
- Did you hear what happened at the toilet bowl?
Number two got flushed.
- Hmm-hmm; computer, have Sam tell me a joke.
- Why do zombies study all night?
To get A head.
(laughing)
- Computer, have Sam tell me a good joke.
- You're mama's so nice, you should hug her twice.
- How is that joke?
Computer, have Sam tell me a joke.
- Here's an acting tip; don't.
- Okay, so there is a demo of the celebrity voice.
Cost a dollar; it's up to you if you wanna get it or not.