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First Alexa Phone Call on Echo Dot and Fun Experiments!

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Today Amazon released voice calling and messaging for Amazon Echo devices, in anticipation of next month's launch of the new Echo Show. Allison Sheridan from Podfeet joined Joe Dugandzic to have some fun testing out the new features and found some quirks, too!
Voice and messaging work between Echo devices, an Echo and the Alexa app, and even between Alexa apps for users who don't yet have an Echo device. (Not supported on Amazon Tap or iPad.)
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31 июл 2024

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@jungy537 7 лет назад

(0:54) I give you thumbs up for not activating my echo!

@312Duck 7 лет назад

I give you thumbs up for your profile pic! Eduard!

@heatherprideaux1292 7 лет назад

Jung Y what's with the link on my phone ??? what are you really up too??

@jungy537 7 лет назад

Heather p I'm taking control of your youtubes and pointing it to a specific position in the space-time continuum. Nothing fancy, really.

@ObiWanBillKenobi 6 лет назад

“The A-word,” “What’s-her-name.” 😂

@SmarterHomeLife 6 лет назад

😉

@heXbelongs2me 11 месяцев назад

I miss this echo

@mellyons4964 7 лет назад

Like it so far. My daughter lives in another state and we've had fun with it so far

@garolstipock 7 лет назад

gawd bless ya dude for not activating my echo! Props given!!

@Theseniorlist 7 лет назад

This is fantastic! :)

@Dmaez321 7 лет назад

Pretty cool I will try it out

@ComputerLearning0 3 года назад

I also changed my Echo device wake word to "computer" to give aTrek feel to it but quickly changed it back because I didn't realize just how many random mentionings of the word COMPUTER are used in a given day by people, radio, TV and internet videos to name a few. I found my Echo device constantly waking and respond to most of them.

@spaace993 7 лет назад

I showed my mom and sister my mom was excited

@chwebb1 7 лет назад

It would be awesome if you could hook this up to a SIP/VoIP provider and make calls that way, especially if you could hook it up to an Asterisk system in the home. I've been hoping that Amazon would add that feature for a while. 🤞 that Amazon will add this feature.

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Exactly!

@mojito-alongtimeago 7 лет назад

Definitely on my wishlist, but I want three since my I have two story apt. Great video! I wanted to comment earlier, but I was too lazy to log in. Thank you!

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Thanks for your kind words!

@ChristopherRuggles 7 лет назад

When it rings, it rings all the Amazon Echo devices at once. It answers on the closest unit. I'm hoping they will enable the user to swap devices if they want to go to another room, or even answer on all the devices at once that way you can move from room to room. A friend of mine and I pre-ordered the two pack of Echo Show. We're both early adopters, and suckers for technology. LOL Google had better step up their game in they're going to hope to gain a bigger market share. I have 4 devices from each (1 Echo, 3 Dots, and 4 Ghomes). I love them all, but would ultimately prefer to have all Google.

@thebigdoghimself 7 лет назад

I'm guessing they will offer a 'monthly' home phone service plan soon, that will allow you to make and receive calls from landlines for a small monthly subscription rate. After all that's really what most corporations want, repeated monthly income from any source they can get it from.

@hiker02910 7 лет назад

Thanks for sharing your maiden voyage!

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

You bet!

@elviswjr 7 лет назад

I recently switched our home phone service over to Google Voice so we could drop our phone bill and have free nationwide calling. Since it's a standard VOIP service that can configured in various apps and devices, it would be nice if it could be integrated with Alexa. I don't think that's going to happen, however, considering that they're marketing their own service. Maybe if Google Home gets VOIP integration I'll have a reason to switch.

@zeldalink472 Год назад

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@Jason-fz1zd 6 лет назад

So the only way to use the call to call is the other person needs one got it

@djlmonte 7 лет назад

Is there a way to block certain dots from ringing when calls come in via echo dots ?

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Yes. There's a Do Not Disturb option in the Alexa app under Settings, and it works per-device.

@marklorenfahey4942 6 лет назад

Extremely hot dot on dot action going on there!

@tubeDude48 7 лет назад

Did you have to install a 'skills' to get this to work? Also, how do you add someone to your contact list.

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Nope, no Skill needed! There's an article on our site all about how to make it work. The setup process will ask you to upload your Contacts from your phone to Amazon so it can identify any matching numbers you have with your other Contacts who have also setup the Alexa Calling / Messaging feature. Here's the link: smarterhomelife.com/everything/2017/5/11/how-to-make-a-phone-call-on-your-amazon-echo

@peterpowis4145 7 лет назад

thank you, nice review!! can I please ask, does messaging/calling work between echos in the same household, if you have more than one device? i'm in the UK and we haven't had the calling update yet.

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Thanks! Reports are that yes, calling does work between Echos in the same home. We're hopeful that you'll get the feature over there soon!

@peterpowis4145 7 лет назад

ok thanks!! :) I can't imagine that the update will take long to come to the UK. hopefully Germany too. wonder if the echo will become available in other countries?...I notice the Google Home will soon be available in a few more countries. will you buy a Echo Show? it looks really good :)

@ronik330 6 лет назад

Peter Powis the update came to the UK. A month ago

@alk3r056 5 лет назад

OK mine is The 3rd generation i bought like a week ago. And I make a call trough the device and later i realize that my iPhone was off because was running out of battery. But the person I called was there all the time. My question is the call was trough my WiFi or using my Data Plan from the phone or something what else. As always thank you for your time and videos.

@SmarterHomeLife 5 лет назад

The call goes through Echo and your Wi-Fi network, it uses Amazon's proprietary "Alexa Communications System". And, thanks! :)

@christopherbusch7853 7 лет назад

Can you use a echo in one room to call another echo in the same house. Basically can you use it like a intercom?

@ImRickJames24 7 лет назад

Christopher Busch yes you can but you might get some feed back depending how close the echos are

@karlamolina1397 7 лет назад

my alexa keep saying " I couldnt find x contact ", I wanna know if this feature only works with people who have the alexa app ?? do they need to b login ? thank you so much !

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Correct. The feature will only work with those people who have enabled calling and upgraded their Alexa app. They don't necessarily have to be logged into the app or have it running, but they would need to have gone through the setup process to make sure it was up and running.

@shahidahmed3386 6 лет назад

Hey cool video just tell me this... Can I call to another phone directly using my echo dot?

@SmarterHomeLife 5 лет назад

Yes. They turned that feature on a few months after this video was made.

@SmarterHomeLife 5 лет назад

And, thanks! :)

@joymaster2006 7 лет назад

"The LITTLE SISTER is listening" :-)

@evanseman5395 2 года назад

So Cole

@EastMontana1 7 лет назад

So you changed your name commend to Computer ? How did you do that ?

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

It's under the Settings menu in the Alexa app, under the specific Echo device that you want to change the "wake word" for.

@santiagofire64 6 лет назад

@ScorpionMcKillinIt 5 лет назад

Is it me or is the music too loud in the beginning....compared to later narration

@SmarterHomeLife 5 лет назад

Earlier videos had some issues with volume levels, this has been addressed over the years.

@Robroy11976 7 лет назад

Do you have to manual update the echo or it automatically update itself?

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

It will auto-update itself, just download the latest version of the Alexa app to your smartphone, run thru the quick setup and you're good to go.

@Robroy11976 7 лет назад

Smarter Home Life thanks :)

@quadsman11 6 лет назад

Hello, I have attempted to contact Amazon regarding the call capabilities of the Echo, and the Echo Dot. I am paralyzed from my shoulders down, and having the ability to call 911 could potentially be a lifesaver ! Would you possibly have the ability to have any greater leverage, or contact affectiveness than I do ?

@chrisknightstravel 6 лет назад

Regulations and such stop this. But in the future it will change. I heard you can call a buddy or so as a way around this however.

@Highgear145 7 лет назад

I can't get mine to work

@mygalaxys3 7 лет назад

Torrey Ellison you need to update your alexa app on the phone first. when you open the app it'll automatically guide you thru. Make sure you allow to access your contacts. If you calling your echo from cellphone, you need to call yourself in alexa app

@HIBAW 7 лет назад

There wasn't a need to bring phone numbers and contacts into this in order to be highly useful. They ruined it's potential. Such is the echo. I was honestly really really excited until I realized it required a phone number and contacts. This is aweful. Could have been so cool. p2p communications (locally or over the interwebs) with other paired echo's or users would have been really useful. Like an intercom/messaging system. Alas this isn't that. Which just makes this more of a liability to the end users more than anything. Nice review, glad to see someone is enjoying this heavy handed feature. Now "tell 'some skill' to retrieve a simple endpoint from a url!" So close echo. So close. Phone numbers are just a liability now, for communication. leveraging them further isn't something we should continue to welcome. Just my opinion though :)

@zamzamcolaa 7 лет назад

was it google's home shown in the end :)

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Yes

@spacemoon56 7 лет назад

If only it could make regular phone calls. Google just introduced this (for free) at Google I/O, the Google home isn't gets its own phone number.

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

+Joshua Long Exactly, there will be some great competition and innovation now 😊

@MrJamboy300 6 лет назад

Crypto World stfu clown

@GaryThomo 7 лет назад

anyone know when we will get this in the UK?

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

It appears that it already is available over there: amzn.to/2qu6rja 😊

@GaryThomo 7 лет назад

sorry not the Echo we have that, its the call feature we do not have

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

Ah, oops. Amazon seems to be keeping that information to themselves, sadly. It's most likely delayed for setting up UK English for transcribing voice messages to text and such. But it shouldn't be too long.

@jlovaglio 7 лет назад

Can you do a how to setup video?

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

There will be an accompanying article posted soon on the setup, which is super-simple.

@davidfolders867 7 лет назад

Smarter Home Life I'm struggling to find the connect or communication icon in my ipad alexa app

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

+David Folders Do you have the latest version of the Alexa app? The icon should be the middle in a set of three at the very bottom of the newly updated app.

@DD-zh3jj 7 лет назад

Since when they installed RGB LED in it??? I though that was only blue/red!

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

+Yehua Zhang Evidently they've been there all along 😊

@DD-zh3jj 7 лет назад

Smarter Home Life awesome！

@shaungriffin4617 7 лет назад

Why cant you just use a tablet you already have at home and download an app

@SmarterHomeLife 7 лет назад

+Shaun Griffin It should work on tablets, too.

@harvey2959 Год назад

@moddedgaming7816 5 лет назад

0:59 Alison burgers

@maltesefan 6 лет назад

Does anyone else find this funny as he say the words "Computer Call Sheridan." Anyone here. recall a very popular science fiction TV series. that people use to say the Words. Computer.

@rickytin3251 3 года назад

Dxg

@danlyle531 7 лет назад

not yet here in the UK :( Why doesn't Amazon like us Brits? I shall jolly well like to call my neighbours with a U to have a chinwag about tea and crumpets 😂