Use Alexa to search for places in your local area
Provided you have added your location to the Alexa app during set up you can
ask for information about your local area.
Try saying:
Alexa what restaurants are in my local area? Alexa will come back with a
number of results, and you can respond by saying something like Alexa give
me the number to the first one. Alexa what is my local supermarket? Alexa
will respond by announcing a couple of your local supermarkets. You can
respond by asking what the opening times are. Alexa will give you other
suggestions of what you can ask about your local businesses.
The Echo Show 15, Full HD 15.6" Smart Display
The Echo Show 15 is an HD smart display released by Amazon. This is their
largest smart display yet and may be suitable for some low vision users due
to its large screen size.
The Echo Show 15 can be mounted on a wall or be put on a stand which can be
bought separately. It can be placed in either landscape or portrait mode.
Family coordination
You can leave sticky notes for your family members or house mates. Update
shopping lists and to do lists and check your calendar and reminders.
Personalised view
Family members can create profiles and then use visual ID and voice ID, so
Alexa can recognise who's who and show the right information to the right
person, such as appointments, reminders, recently played music and more.
This works by recognising the person as they come into shot of the device's
camera.
Control centre for your smart home
Save your favourite compatible smart home devices to the home screen for
easy access and control them all on one central dashboard.
Add a picture-in-picture live camera feed from your ring video doorbell to
your screen so you can do things like check on the front door camera while
watching a TV programme. Or check the temperature from your compatible smart
heating controls in different zones in your house.
Use the Echo Show 15 as a photo frame
If you are a Facebook user or an Amazon Prime member you can display your
Facebook photos or your Amazon photos on the 15-inch HD screen. Works of art
are also available to display.
Stream Netflix, Amazon Prime, podcasts, audio books and your other
favourites. One of the best features of all is the ability to stream content
from streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. You can give a
command like "Alexa play Squid Game on Netflix" or "Alexa play the Hunger
Games on Amazon Prime". You can also play your favourite audible books from
audible, podcasts, and radio stations.
For people that have some vision it will display lyrics on the screen when
you play music from Amazon Music.
Show and Tell is also available
Show and Tell is an accessibility feature introduced into Echo smart
displays to help people with sight loss recognise products. Just hold the
product in front of the camera and the Echo Show will try and recognise the
product and give you information about it. The Echo Show 15 also has a
built-in screen reader called VoiceView.
Low power mode
To save energy consumption the Echo Show will go into low power mode when
idle.
Taken from the National Council for the Blind of Ireland Labs Technology
Newsletter.
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