Amazon added a few abilities to Alexa a month ago, presenting an assortment of Super Bowl-related abilities and the capacity to do home mechanization all alone, yet today the organization’s enlightening us regarding some new alert and COVID abilities that snuck under the radar.
You’ve had the option to set custom alarms and alarm sounds utilizing Alexa gadgets for some time now, yet now you can do it with Minion sounds, in the event that you simply haven’t been awakening adequately furious. The sounds incorporate such works of art as “Peep Peep Peep”, “Banana,” or “Boing!” Lovely.
There are currently an assortment of marked alerts accessible for Alexa, including sounds from Disney, Spongebob, Jurassic World, and Harry Potter. They can be set by saying “Alexa, wake me up to Minions/Jurassic World/Spongebob/etc alarm tone.” Some of the caution tones are free, some can be extended with in-expertise buys, and some expense cash, beginning at $1.99.
The alarm sounds can be added by asking your Alexa gadget for them, and you can likewise peruse and add them in the Android variant of the Alexa application. In case you’re utilizing the iOS variant of the application, you’ll simply need to peruse the rundown and request that your shrewd speaker introduce them. It appears Amazon had the option to work out an arrangement with Apple to get Prime video rentals working, however not Alexa ability installment handling.
Going to abilities that could be somewhat more valuable, Alexa would now be able to help you discover the closest COVID testing site, or help you discover immunization preliminaries. Asking Alexa “where can I get tested for COVID” will make it read out top notch of the close by places you can get tried at. You would then be able to have Alexa call one of the areas on the off chance that you need more information.
In case you’re searching for vaccine trials, you can likewise ask “Alexa find a COVID trial”, and it’ll search for any inside 30 miles of you, utilizing research association IQVIA to look for preliminaries. Obviously, this is data that you could discover on the web yourself, however it very well may be a helpful choice in the event that you wouldn’t fret Amazon knowing.