[Electronics-Talk] Amazon Echo questions

[Jim Barbour]

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.
> 
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