As we mentioned earlier, the red ring on an Alexa device can mean that your microphone is disabled. When disabled, your device won’t hear anything you are saying or respond to your commands, but you can still control it via … Continue reading →

How do I connect my wireless speaker to my TV? How to Connect Wireless Speakers to a Television Position the wireless transmitter next to the television. Insert the opposite end of the RCA audio cables into the “Audio Out” ports … Continue reading →

To find music in your library, swipe from the left edge of the screen, and then tap My Music. Select Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, or Genres. What happened to my Amazon Music library? Amazon Music is retiring the Music Storage … Continue reading →

If you speak the wake word or manually wake Alexa, the light ring will turn solid blue, and a small section of cyan will point in the direction of the person speaking. Solid blue with spinning cyan after you’ve spoken … Continue reading →

3.0 out of 5 stars Has the ability to select every 15 minutes, every half hour, and on the hour.With recent updates you can select to chime quarter, half, three quarter or on the hour. How do you get Alexa … Continue reading →

Select “Sounds & Notifications”. Under the section “Request Sounds”, select the toggle switch under “Start of Request”. This will emit a short audio tone after you say “Alexa”. You can also turn on “End of Request”, which will play the … Continue reading →

If you do need to contact the emergency services using your voice assistant, simply ask Siri to call 999 or “dial emergency services”. Siri gives you a five-second countdown, allowing users who have made a mistake to quickly cancel the … Continue reading →

9 Easy Fixes for When Google Assistant Is Not Working Make Sure Your Android Device Is Compatible. Ensure You’re Connected to the Internet. Enable the “Hey Google” Option. Retrain the Voice Model. Make Sure Your Device’s Microphone Is Working. Grant … Continue reading →

Change Siri’s voice by going to Settings > Siri & Search > Siri Voice. Choose from American, Australian, British, Indian, Irish, and South African male and female voices. As of iOS 14.5, Siri no longer has a default voice. iPhone … Continue reading →

Who came up with the name? Kittalaus did. As he revealed at a startup conference in Chicago this week, he planned to name his daughter Siri after a former coworker (in Norwegian, Siri means “beautiful woman who leads you to … Continue reading →

Hass.io is an operating system that will take care of installing and updating Home Assistant, is managed from the Home Assistant UI, allows creating/restoring snapshots of your configuration and can easily be extended using Hass.io add-ons including Google Assistant and … Continue reading →

Just say “Hey Google, play music on [Group name] speakers,” and it should begin playing on all devices in that group. You can also replace “music” in that command with an artist, album, or playlist. Alternatively, you can cast to … Continue reading →

Here’s how to link your music services to Google Home: Open the Google Home app and tap on the Settings button. In the bottom half of the list, tap Music (for Sirius XM, tap Radio). Find the services you use … Continue reading →

Here is how to become a spy: Maintain a clean record. In order to earn a job with a federal agency, all applicants must go through a rigorous screening process. Earn a bachelor’s degree. Learn a foreign language. Work on … Continue reading →

Run-time protection means your Samsung mobile device is always running in a safe state against data attacks or malware. Any unauthorized or unintended attempts to access or modify your phone’s core, the kernel, are blocked in real time, all of … Continue reading →