[Electronics-Talk] Amazon Echo questions

[Chip Orange]

Also, here's a clink to a company named Mystic Access which offers a couple of free podcasts where they demo and go over the setup of an Echo, and they also sell a tutorial for blind users on how to setup and use the Echo (in enormous detail).
http://www.mysticaccess.com/

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-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lori Motis via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 5:25 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: Lori Motis
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon Echo questions

Hi Lisa, Yes, you can, if you have the Alexa app for your iPhone. I am
totally blind and set it up with the app and my internet password. It
is lots of fun. there is also a website called
http://lovemyecho.com/
 where you can read about fun things to try with your echo. I think
that having an Amazon Prime membership makes it much more usable with
all her features. An they're adding more every week.
Lori AKA Food Lady



On 1/18/16, Jim Barbour via Electronics-Talk
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hey Lisa,
>
> Yes you can set up your echo without sight, especially if you have an iPhone
> to run the Alexa app on.  If you don't have an iPhone, you can do it via the
> web, but I'm not sure how accessible that interface is.
>
> Here are Amazon's set up instructions...
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201601770
>
> Once the Echo is set up, you interface with it via its built-in
> microphone/speaker, the Alexa app for your phone, or a remote that you can
> purchase separately. All these methods are accessible.
>
> You aren't required to have prime to get an Echo, but you'll be much more
> limited in what you can do with it.  You won't be able to order items from
> Amazon, play streaming music for free with Amazon music, or a few other
> things.
>
> You can add accounts for Audible, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, or Pandora. Except
> for TuneIn, I believe you must have paid accounts for these services, not
> just the free accounts.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201640630
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 07:17:26AM -0500, Lisa P. Geibel via
> Electronics-Talk wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Sorry for asking this on here, but I know other blind people use this and
>> love it, so I thought I'd ask here since it is a blindness related list
>> kind
>> of. Hope it is
>> My hubby and I are both totally blind for starters and need to know if we
>> got one of these could we install it ourselves with no sighted
>> assistance?
>> Next, is having an Amazon Echo dependent on whether you have Amazon Prime
>> or
>> not?
>> Thanks and again sorry for asking this here. Please forgive me and also,
>> please help if anyone can? Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Lisa
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>> 773-572-7897
>> God bless everyone!!!
>>
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