Description
Amazon Alexa is an integrated virtual assistant which provides numerous Accessibility features via compatible devices such as Amazon Show and Amazon Echo Speakers.
Amazon Echo aims to make your life easier at home by enabling you to use your voice to set timers, add items to lists, and create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather, or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie showtimes, restaurant hours, or information.
Manage compatible smart home devices using your voice. Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the coffee maker on your way to the kitchen, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie.
Make hands-free calls to the Alexa app or another Echo. Use Announcements to send voice messages to every room with a supported Echo device, or use Drop In as a two-way intercom between rooms.
Vision features:
- Amazon Show and Tell– Show and Tell identifies common pantry items and other things using the camera on Amazon Echo Show’s camera.
- VoiceView reads aloud items on the screen.
- Screen Magnifier allows you to enlarge the screen.
- Color Inversion exchanges color values.
- Color Correction modifies the screen to assist with color blindness.
- Support for the large text setting on Android (not available on iOS).
- Audio instructions for various steps of the setup on Amazon Alexa devices.
- Use the Alexa app with supported screen readers:
- iPad and iPhones with Voice Over (iOS 8 and above).
- Mac OS X with Voice Over.
- Android devices (5.0+) with Talk Back.
- PCs with JAWS and NVDA
- Customizable device settings to enable ‘wake up’ and ‘end of request’ sounds on compatible devices, in the Alexa app.
- Adjustable volume with voice or touch on Amazon Alexa devices.
- High contrast in the Alexa app for better visibility.
- Use your voice to ask Alexa to speak slower or faster based on your personal preferences.
Hearing features-
Echo Device Speaker
- Pair your Echo device with supported Bluetooth speakers (sold separately).
- Ask Alexa to speak slower or faster.
- Adjust volume for timers, alarms, and media playback on compatible Alexa devices.
- Use the Alexa app to control music playback for your device (not available for all products).
Echo Devices with a Screen
- Closed Caption for supported videos and movie trailers.
- Alexa Captioning displays real-time text captions from Alexa.
- Calling and Messaging Without Speech shows contacts and transcripts of messages with a touch screen feature.
- Tap to Alexa lets you interact with Alexa with touch on Echo devices with a screen.
- Echo devices can be paired with supported Bluetooth speakers (sold separately).
- Adjustable volume for timers, alarms, and media playback on compatible Amazon Alexa devices.
- Music playback controls for your device (play, pause, next, back) in the Alexa app (not available for all products).
- Alexa Captioning displays text captions of supported responses from on compatible Echo devices.
- On Echo devices, a visible light indicator changes color to signal various Alexa actions.
- Use your voice to ask Alexa to speak slower or faster based on your personal preferences.
Mobility
- Control supported smart home devices (sold separately) with your voice.
- Support for keyboard navigation in the Alexa app and web browsers.
- Far-field speech recognition with Echo devices.
- Amazon Tap provides up to nine hours of continuous playback.
- Smart home devices controlled with voice.
Speech
- Customize wake words for compatible Alexa devices.
- Add items to lists with text input inside the Alexa app.
- Provide feedback on your speech commands on the Home Screen or by going to Settings in the Alexa app, selecting Alexa Account, and then History.
- Regular updates to Alexa that improve speech recognition and add new features.
- Third-party skills allow you to use your voice to access and use apps that makes Alexa more capable.
- Use your voice to ask Alexa to speak slower or faster based on your personal preferences.
- Customize wake words for compatible Echo devices.
- Tap for Alexa lets you interact with Alexa via touch on Echo devices with a screen.
- Alexa Voice Remote (sold separately) assists with voice requests.
Amazon Echo smart speaker retails for approx $100USD-
