Alexa, can I buy pancakes?
I'm sorry but I can't help you shopping right now soon you'll be able to ask me to buy millions of items using only your voice so I can't buy anything yet but it does a lot else I can check the news for example Alexa what's in the news
Here's your flash briefing in Sky News from the Sky News Center at midday in the next hour at one point children's news going and you can customize this to the app because for just a volume by twisting the top of it home it Rosetta has been orbiting comet 67p
it will send back detail photos before I can intervene stop but the best part I think is that you can play music through it you can link up your Spotify or Amazon music or you're tuning account things like that so I could say Alexa play Kasabian playing Kasabian from Spotify
one thing I have found when it's producing a lot of volume if it's playing music is it can't hear you quite as well
you do have to ask it to you have to shouted it a little bit more for example you could say Alexa play music here's a prawn station you might like Eagles Eagles are good but if you get bit fed up with it and you just like you can't hear you sometimes once or twice I've had to say Alexa shut up doesn't even listen
it's like a bad child sometimes Alexa shut up there we go see it careless
and so although it has seven built-in mics which has what's called a far-field technology so you can actually have more than one of these and it will pick up the news on to you and respond to it from that but it's not perfect once or twice sort of 80% of the time it works but sometimes it doesn't quite hear you
you do have to shout ative so aside from being a big slim called water bottle shape thing with a perforated speaker grill here
the most obvious thing about it is the light bar at the top you can press a little button on top there's two buttons that wakes it up there's also a mute button which if you press makes it go red and lay you out so it's muted
it looks very futuristic it's quite subtle it's got a full 360 speaker so you don't have to have it in the center of the room like I'm doing here for the purpose of the video you can have it in a corner have any kitchen you can you know anything you want really
Alexa are you always listening
I only send audio back to Amazon when I hear the wake word so you're not going to take over the world
I'm sorry if I did anything to make you feel that way it wasn't my intent so the echo here is a hundred and forty nine pounds at ninety nine which is quite expensive
it is a Bluetooth speaker so you've got that going for it it's not the court sound quality isn't the best I recently really Sound Blaster roar
and it doesn't quite match that but it's decent and you know you can set timers you can set alarm clocks if you do have a lot of smart home systems this will integrate with that through the app
it's all done through the app including setting it up and you can get the mini docks as well which you can spread throughout your house so if you have sort of Philips hue or Nest smart home systems you can integrate here's you could say you know lights on lights off that sort of thing so it's pretty cool
and there's quite a lot you can do with it but it does come down to whether you have a smart home whether you're within range of sort of just eat or dominate things
we can order food Amazon shopping doesn't seem to be here just yet in the UK but that should be coming soon because it is available on the US one so quite a lot of stuff here for 150 quid
whether you need it or not that's another question I like so what's the meaning of life
the meaning of life depends on the life in question 42 is a good approximation true true
so that's the Amazon echo
it's very easy to set up and this has been a quick review
a bit of a walk through of it let me know what you make of it in the comments below whether you think you will buy one
and thank you very much for watching please do like share and subscribe
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlike so what do you do I can play music answer questions get the news and weather create to-do lists and much more so this is the Amazon echo it's been out in the States for a little over the year but it's now just come to the UK it's only been out a few days and I've been getting to grips with now what you can do with this is as it says you can play music you can ask it for news updates you can check the weather your transport you can add things to the shopping list although that doesn't seem to be supportive just at the moment in the UK let me try Alex sir can i buy pancakes I'm sorry but I can't help you shopping right now soon you'll be able to ask me to buy millions of items using only your voice so I can't buy anything yet but it does a lot else I can check the news for example Alexa what's in the news here's your flash briefing in Sky News from the sky News Center at midday in the next hour at one point children news going and you can customize this to the app because for just a volume by twisting the top of it home it Rosetta has been orbiting comet 67p it will send back detail photos before I can intervene stop but the best part I think is that you can play music through it you can link up your Spotify or Amazon music or you're tuning account things like that so I could say Alexa play Kassabian playing Kassabian from Spotify one thing I have found when it's producing a lot of volume if it's playing music is it can't hear you quite as well you do have to ask it to you have to shouted it a little bit more for example you could say Alexa play music here's a prawn station you might like Eagles Eagles are good but if you get bit fed up with it and you just like you can't hear you sometimes once or twice I've had to say Alexa shut up doesn't even listen it's like a bad child sometimes Alexa shut up there we go see it careless and so although it has seven built-in mics which has what's called a far-field technology so you can actually have more than one of these and it will pick up the news on to you and respond to it from that but it's not perfect once or twice sort of 80% of the time it works but sometimes it doesn't quite hear you you do have to shout ative so aside from being a big slim called water bottle shape thing with a perforated speaker grill here the most obvious thing about it is the light bar at the top you can press a little button on top there's two buttons that wakes it up there's also a mute button which if you press makes it go red and lay you out so it's muted it looks very futuristic it's quite subtle it's got a full 360 speaker so you don't have to have it in the center of the room like I'm doing here for the purpose of the video you can have it in a corner have any kitchen you can you know anything you want really Alexa are you always listening I only send audio back to Amazon when I hear you say the week word so you're not going to take over the world I'm sorry if I did anything to make you feel that way it wasn't my intent so the echo here is a hundred and forty nine pounds at ninety nine which is quite expensive it is a Bluetooth speaker so you've got that going for it it's not the court sound quality isn't the best I recently really Sound Blaster roar - and it doesn't quite match that but it's decent and you know you can set timers you can set alarm clocks if you do have a lot of smart home systems this will integrate with that through the app it's all done through the app including setting it up and you can get the mini docks as well which you can spread throughout your house so if you have sort of Philips hue or Nest smart home systems you can integrate here's you could say you know lights on lights off that sort of thing so it's pretty cool and there's quite a lot you can do with it but it does come down to whether you have a smart home whether you're within range of sort of just eat or dominate things we can order food Amazon shopping doesn't seem to be here just yet in the UK but that should be coming soon because it is available on the US one so quite a lot of stuff here for 150 quid whether you need it or not that's another question I like so what's the meaning of life the meaning of life depends on the life in question 42 is a good approximation true true so that's the Amazon echo it's very easy to set up and this has been a quick review a bit of a walk through of it let me know what you make of it in the comments below whether you think you will buy one and thank you very much for watching please do like share and subscribe and I'll catch you again on the texture Alexa tell me another joke why is the mushroom always invited to parties here's a fungilike so what do you do I can play music answer questions get the news and weather create to-do lists and much more so this is the Amazon echo it's been out in the States for a little over the year but it's now just come to the UK it's only been out a few days and I've been getting to grips with now what you can do with this is as it says you can play music you can ask it for news updates you can check the weather your transport you can add things to the shopping list although that doesn't seem to be supportive just at the moment in the UK let me try Alex sir can i buy pancakes I'm sorry but I can't help you shopping right now soon you'll be able to ask me to buy millions of items using only your voice so I can't buy anything yet but it does a lot else I can check the news for example Alexa what's in the news here's your flash briefing in Sky News from the sky News Center at midday in the next hour at one point children news going and you can customize this to the app because for just a volume by twisting the top of it home it Rosetta has been orbiting comet 67p it will send back detail photos before I can intervene stop but the best part I think is that you can play music through it you can link up your Spotify or Amazon music or you're tuning account things like that so I could say Alexa play Kassabian playing Kassabian from Spotify one thing I have found when it's producing a lot of volume if it's playing music is it can't hear you quite as well you do have to ask it to you have to shouted it a little bit more for example you could say Alexa play music here's a prawn station you might like Eagles Eagles are good but if you get bit fed up with it and you just like you can't hear you sometimes once or twice I've had to say Alexa shut up doesn't even listen it's like a bad child sometimes Alexa shut up there we go see it careless and so although it has seven built-in mics which has what's called a far-field technology so you can actually have more than one of these and it will pick up the news on to you and respond to it from that but it's not perfect once or twice sort of 80% of the time it works but sometimes it doesn't quite hear you you do have to shout ative so aside from being a big slim called water bottle shape thing with a perforated speaker grill here the most obvious thing about it is the light bar at the top you can press a little button on top there's two buttons that wakes it up there's also a mute button which if you press makes it go red and lay you out so it's muted it looks very futuristic it's quite subtle it's got a full 360 speaker so you don't have to have it in the center of the room like I'm doing here for the purpose of the video you can have it in a corner have any kitchen you can you know anything you want really Alexa are you always listening I only send audio back to Amazon when I hear you say the week word so you're not going to take over the world I'm sorry if I did anything to make you feel that way it wasn't my intent so the echo here is a hundred and forty nine pounds at ninety nine which is quite expensive it is a Bluetooth speaker so you've got that going for it it's not the court sound quality isn't the best I recently really Sound Blaster roar - and it doesn't quite match that but it's decent and you know you can set timers you can set alarm clocks if you do have a lot of smart home systems this will integrate with that through the app it's all done through the app including setting it up and you can get the mini docks as well which you can spread throughout your house so if you have sort of Philips hue or Nest smart home systems you can integrate here's you could say you know lights on lights off that sort of thing so it's pretty cool and there's quite a lot you can do with it but it does come down to whether you have a smart home whether you're within range of sort of just eat or dominate things we can order food Amazon shopping doesn't seem to be here just yet in the UK but that should be coming soon because it is available on the US one so quite a lot of stuff here for 150 quid whether you need it or not that's another question I like so what's the meaning of life the meaning of life depends on the life in question 42 is a good approximation true true so that's the Amazon echo it's very easy to set up and this has been a quick review a bit of a walk through of it let me know what you make of it in the comments below whether you think you will buy one and thank you very much for watching please do like share and subscribe and I'll catch you again on the texture Alexa tell me another joke why is the mushroom always invited to parties here's a fungi\n"