TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’

Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by ghaff on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:42PM (#13346146)

I use Alexa to put stuff on a shopping list all the time. It's probably one of its more useful features for me.

But most of this stuff is things I don't get from Amazon and, if I did, I'd want to check quantities, pricing, etc. For certain types of goods you might want to batch things up an use Amazon Pantry.

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Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by jghn on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:55PM (#13346231)

I've recently set up an Echo but haven't really explored this functionality yet. As you state most things I want I don't actually want to buy from Amazon. I've been looking into other shopping list skills to use. What I really want is something which synchs with a smartphone app I can use when I'm at the store.

pre-Echo I've been using Evernote for this. I haven't had a chance to try out any of the alexa enabled things but OurGroceries looks to be about what I want.

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Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by ghaff on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:02PM (#13346283)

Echo syncs lists to the Alexa app on the smartphone. The voice recognition works quite well and I find it very handy when I'm cooking and notice I'm almost out of something to add it to my list without having to stop what I'm doing.

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Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by jghn on Saturday January 07, 2017 @06:35PM (#13347324)

Huh, I hadn't noticed the todo list and I always assumed the shopping list was my amazon cart. Neat.

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