Hi – YES. I should have reported that the video I sent with the control of Lights with the Hue lighting system was done with the Dot! The music you heard playing was through the Dot and – in reality was fine but not as rich a sound as the Echo.
Has anyone tried the less expensive Echo Dot, second generation? They sell them in packs at a discount. I think Amazon is thinking with the lower price of $49, a
person can put a dot in every room. My impression is the sound quality of the dot as a speaker is less full and rich but it should work just as well at taking commands.
Sincerely,
Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
Augmentative Communication Specialist
Hi all, for the past few months I’ve had so many people with ALS get over the moon excited over this simple use of an SGD and Amazon Echo. A woman with ALS (who loves this) asked me yesterday if I had posted on
any professional lists which made me think to post here. This is a video I made for our clinic page and our clinic facebook page (www.facebook.com/ACPCHBoston)
but thought I’d share the link in case anyone had not had a chance to try this out. I have a list of synthetic voices it does not respond to, under development and will share.
"Do you know that by creating your language page sets properly, one can control Amazon Alexa - including music, news, environmental controls (lighting control not demonstrated in this video). Alexa does NOT recognize ALL synthetic
voices (we are working on a list) AND for novel commands, it is imperative that the word 'Alexa' is stored with a comma afterward because the Echo requires a slight pause between the awake word (Alexa) and the command. Here you see both full pre-stored phrases
as well as a novel command created after selecting 'Alexa," (note the comma).”