Anyone got one?
What are your thoughts?
Not something I would have bought myself but I was given one for Chrimbo by my mum. (Surprisingly good techie present, definitely beats a jumper and socks)
Have to say that the voice recognition has coped admirably with my weegie accent and it certainly feels like living in the future to be able to just request things and have Jarvis Alexa respond. e.g. mornings can go like this:
me: “Alexa, good morning”
her: “Good morning, {random interesting fact about the day}”
me: “Alexa, what’s in the news?”
her: “Here is your flash briefing: ” {plays news summaries from my selected news sources}
me: “Alexa, play Classic FM”
her: “Okay I’ll play Classic FM on TuneIn” {plays}
me: *starts boiling eggs* “Alexa, set a timer for seven minutes”
etc etc
But…
Not sure I’m okay with having a device sitting listening to my conversations, mundane as they are, and transmitting them to Amazon (or whatever hacker gets control of it).
Nor do I like leaving stuff on all the time anyway.
So for now I turn it off when I’m not using it which rather defeats some of the convenience factor.
Plus the music integration is apparently good, but for now you need an Amazon Music or Spotify Premium account, neither of which I have, so for now I’m limited to internet radio. (It may be possible to set it up to play stuff off a local NAS/iTunes/media server, not investigated that possibility yet as I don’t have one).