Alexa Not Responding, Any Other Issues Of Alexa With Alexa Community

Amazon announced its latest big idea last month:  The Amazon Echo.  The Echo is essentially a hands-free, voice activated Bluetooth speaker connected with wifi and to the cloud with a processing chip and 7 microphones.  For more detailed information, visit the official site  by clicking here . Now, there are is lot to be said about this new little toy, and, as somebody working in the field of assistive technology (AT) for five years, I see a lot of promise for Amazon Echo as an AT device for people that are blind or have low vision. The technology, however, looks awfully familiar though…Yes!  It is the same as your beloved virtual assistance that is sitting in your high-end smartphone.  The same technology you are busy neglecting right now!  For reasons only God and the Amazon Engineering department know, instead of putting ‘Alexa’ (The name of this intelligence – think Siri) in the  Fire Phone , they migrated her to a Bluetooth Speaker.  Tha...

  This topic provides an overview of the steps that you take to set up your gadget and use the Alexa Gadgets interfaces. Preparation Before you set up your gadget, review the  hardware requirements . Steps To set up your gadget, go through the following steps: Create an Amazon developer account  – If you don't already have an Amazon developer account, go to the  developer portal  and click  Sign In  to create a free account. Register your gadget  – Follow the instructions in  Register a Gadget   to register your gadget with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) using the  developer portal . Set up Bluetooth  – Set up your gadget with the parameters that are required to connect to an Echo device over Bluetooth. For more information, see  Gadget Settings for Classic Bluetooth . Use the Alexa Gadgets interfaces  – At this point, your gadget should be able to receive directives from and send events to Alexa through an Amazon Echo...