Amazon's smart assistant, Alexa, gives you a personal way to communicate with your intelligent home. It almost sounds like you are pressing a family member for answers. But Alexa can cause issues now and then, particularly if you have a family member of the same name. You might even get bored of the same robotic speech day in and day out. If so, here's how to change the name of Alexa and her speech.

Alexa isn't a real person, don't forget. We don't live with Her, so maybe it helps to keep her sound like a robot. It can help, though, to know like you have someone to speak to while the pandemic progresses. Let's get through the steps to adapt to the experience.

How to change the name of Alexa?

The first thing we'll show you is how to change the name of Alexa. We're going to have to pop up the bubble while it sounds like fun asking Tom Brady or Kevin Hart for advice during the day. Right, you can change the name of your assistant, but you have just a few names to choose from.

Many of your beloved actors can be forgotten, but Amazon helps you to change the name to a phone, eco, amazon, or Alexa. Some of the titles remind you of the robot, but here you have to take the steps:

• On your Android or iOS device, open the Alexa application.
• Tap the upper left corner menu button (it looks like three horizontal lines).
• Tap on the settings button.
• Pick the device from which you wish the name to be changed.
• Tap on the button Wake Word.
• From the drop-down menu, pick your current name. Note, only Amazon, echo or Machine can be picked.

How to change Alexa’s voice?

It is time for Alexa to talk to a new voice if you're tired from the same robotic voice answering every beck and call. Although no old star can respond to your questions, you can tap into a multitude of languages and ethnic accents.
Even if you can add lots of accents and languages, you cannot swap the sex of Alexa. And if we are in 2021 and the assistant has come a long way, with the responses you are confined to a woman's voice. The measures you need are as follows:

• Open the Alexa app and click Menu.
• To go to the system configuration, tap the Settings button and head.
• Pick the interface you want to alter, until the menu is filled in.
• Tap on the alternative Language.
• Choose from the drop-down menu your new language or accent.
• Click and confirm the Save Changes button as necessary.

How to add the voice of a famous person?

Although we said that it is only partially accurate you can't add your favorite celebrities to your Alexa device. You may introduce, albeit in a restricted capacity, Samuel L. Jackson and Gordon Ramsay to your speaker. Sadly, to hear Samuel L. answer your questions and curse you, you would have to pay for it.

You can also place your favorite speaker with Gordon Ramsay, R2-D2, and a few other well-recognized voices. You must download them as skills, but they would have nothing to cost you. You will unlock the different voices by saying "Alexa, enable the skill of Gordon Ramsay," until you introduce them to your Alexa ecosystem. She needs to answer in kind, and you're off to the races.

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Apple has released a new website and app that will provide a screening tool for Covid-19 (CoronaVirus) symptoms. The self-screening tool has been developed in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House-led coronavirus task force and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The app, which will be available in the app store as “COVID-19,” will ask users questions about symptoms, location and risk factors and then provide the appropriate up-to-date guidance from the CDC, White House officials said.

The Covid-19 app will also answer frequently asked questions about the coronavirus disease with official information from the CDC. The same information will be available at a website that will be accessible to the users of Windows PCs, Android phones, and other non-Apple devices.

The tool is a sort of guide on social distancing and self-isolating, how to closely monitor symptoms, recommendations on testing, and when to contact a medical provider. Apple clearly mentions that the self-screening tool is designed to be a “resource for individuals” and “does not replace instructions from healthcare providers or guidance from state and local health authorities.”

Although the website and app are designed for American users, anyone from across the world can take advantage of the self-screening coronavirus tool. Neither the app nor website requires users to sign in with an Apple ID. Apple says users’ individual responses will not be sent to Apple or any government organization.

URL: https://www.apple.com/covid19

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Google has the ability to text from the web with Android Messages. The feature gives users a lot more flexibility in choosing how and where they can carry on conversations. As long as your Android smartphone is powered on, you can text from a desktop computer or even other mobile devices — including iOS products like an iPad if you just open up Safari. Aside from text, you can also send emoji, stickers, and images over the web.

Using Android Messages on the web requires using Android Messages as your main texting app on your phone. I like it just fine, and Google is clearly planning big things for the future, but if you prefer, say, Samsung’s default messages app or something else, the two don’t work together.

With that out of the way, getting started and setting things up is fairly simple.

Make sure you’ve got the latest version of Android Messages installed on your phone.

Go to messages.android.com on the computer or other device you want to text from. You’ll see a big QR code on the right side of this page.

Open up Android Messages on your smartphone. Tap the icon with three vertical dots at the top and to the far right. You should see a “Messages for web” option inside this menu.

Tap “QR code scanner” and point your phone’s camera at the QR code on your other device. In less than a second, your phone will vibrate, and the two will be linked up. You should notice your conversations show up in the left column of the browser window. Google says that “conversation threads, contacts, and other settings will be encrypted and cached on your browser.”

Note: this doesn’t mean your actual text conversations are encrypted. They’re not.

And that’s it. To make sure you don’t have to repeat the QR process, you can keep your computer paired with your phone by enabling “Remember this computer.” There will probably be a pop-up asking if you want to enable that the first time you use the web version of Messages. If you missed it, just go to the settings menu, which you can access from the web version of Android Messages by clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of “Messages.” (Of course, you shouldn’t turn this on if you’re using a public PC that other people can easily access.)

WHICH BROWSERS WORK WITH ANDROID MESSAGES ON THE WEB?

Chrome
Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Safari

REMOVE A COMPUTER’S ACCESS TO YOUR MESSAGES

If you want to revoke a web browser’s access to your conversations and messaging, you can quickly do so from your Android smartphone. Go back to the “Messages for web” area of Android Messages, and you can choose to sign out of individual computers or all of them with a click.

THERE’S A DARK MODE!

Dark themes can be handy if you find that all an app’s whites and light grays might overload your eyeballs at night. If you want to enable the Messages dark theme on mobile, tap the same icon with three vertical dots and looking for “Choose theme.” You can go with light, dark, or the system default.

On the web app, you’ll find “Enable dark theme” in the menu that you get after clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of “Messages.

KEEP YOUR PHONE POWERED ON

Android Messages on the web can’t work independently of your smartphone. So if your battery dies or if your phone shuts off for any reason, you won’t be able to send any texts from your computer.

DRAG MEDIA INTO THE ANDROID MESSAGES CONVERSATION

Sending a photo from Android Messages on the web is dead simple. You can either use the attachments icon — to the right of emoji and stickers — or just drag and drop media into the conversation window to send an MMS.

Source:theverge

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Finding new ways to use Amazon’s Alexa has always been a bit of a pain. Amazon boasts that its AI assistant has more than 100,000 skills, but most are garbage and the useful ones are far from easy to discover. Today, though, Amazon announced it’s launched a new way to surface skills: by guessing what users are after when they talk to Alexa about other tasks.

The company refers to this process as “[inferring] customers’ latent goals.” By this, it means working out any questions that are implied by other queries. Amazon gives the example of a customer asking “How long does it take to steep tea?” to which Alexa will answer “five minutes” before asking the follow-up: ”Would you like me to set a timer for five minutes?”

CNBC

Customer: What’s the stock price of {X}?
Alexa: When the market closed on Monday, {X} traded at $201.15, down 1.99% since the previous close.
Alexa: Would you like to know the intraday high for {X} from the CNBC skill?

TED Talks

Customer: What happened today in history?
Alexa: On May 18, 1980…
Alexa: By the way, I can search for talks on history in the TED Talk skill. Want me to pull them up?

Ultimate History Quiz

Customer: When did the second world war end?
Alexa: The Second World War ended on September 2, 1945.
Alexa: Want to test your history knowledge with Ultimate History Quiz?

This all sounds well and good, but it’s not hard to imagine this feature (which is already available to Alexa customers in English in the United States) potentially becoming quite annoying. If Alexa infers a user’s intent incorrectly and suggests an unwanted skill, then that person is bound to feel irritated, as if they’re being advertised to by their digital butler.

Amazon gave The Verge a number of example scenarios of follow-up questions (below) and said that other skills that feed into the system include Bark Like a Dog, Earth Cam, Harry Potter Trivia, Historical Voices, Slow Speller, Xbox, and ZooKeeper. Some of these scenarios will be useful for users, but others less so. It’s a bit of a mixed bag really.

Whether this new function will be useful or irritating will depend on its implementation, but it’s part of Amazon’s long-term goal to make talking to Alexa more natural. Earlier this year, the company announced new abilities for the AI assistant including the ability to ask clarifying questions, changing the tone of its voice, and a new “conversation” mode in which Alexa engages with multiple participants.

Source: theverge

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