[Electronics-Talk] Fire Stick

[Ben Fulton]

Hello and thanks for the advice, I have the voice turned on now it's just a matter of navigating through the menu, which is not as intuitive as I would have thought. Did anyone else here have difficulty learning the initial set up and if so does anyone have some good resources on how to learn how to navigate more easily. - Also when performing a search, can you use dictation, I tried but it seemed like I had to type in each character. 

Right now doing this on my computer seems very fast like a nice convertible, but using the fire stick is like driving through molasses. Is this just me or do other's have the same feeling. 

All the best,
Ben
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:07:50 -0400
From: Christopher Gilland <clgilland07 at gmail.com>
To: "Andrews, David B (DEED) via Electronics-Talk"
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Fire Stick
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I've got a fire stick. Let me help.

Right below the circular ring on the remote is a row of 3 buttons. The one on the left is back, and the one on the right is menu.

Push and hold both of these as the same time for about 4 to 5 seconds, then release.

This will turn on Voiceview.

Chris.

On 08/22/2019 12:05 PM, Andrews, David B (DEED) via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> I got one a few weeks ago, and don't remember how I did it off the top of my head, but I googled for Amazon Fire Stick instructions and read the manual on-line.
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> Dave
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> Hi all,
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> We recently got an amazon  firestick but I don't know how to turn on the voice assistant. My understanding is that you can use the alexa remote to scroll through the options, and the tv speaker will read the options, kinda like how voice over works, but I don't know how to do this at all. I'm told you can navigate netflicks, but I haven't been able to do so. Any help at all on this would be appreciated.
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> Thank you,
> Ben
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