Alexa has significantly improved her ability to understand in recent years. Now it is no longer necessary to use somewhat robotic expressions and you can speak to him more naturally than you would with another person. However, there are times when the experience can be affected by how long you are listening. Now Amazon adds a new option for Alexa to have more patience when talking to him.
Alexa wins in patience
When you pronounce the activation command you have decided Use for summon alexa, Amazon's voice assistant, you have a predefined time to ask what you want. If you don't, it stops listening to you and goes back into standby mode until you wake it up again.
In most cases, the time given to users is more than enough, but only if it is clear what is going to be requested. In other words, if what you want is to turn on the lights, find out some specific information or put on music, the assistant's response will always be satisfactory. However, in longer sentences or in which you doubt things change.
It is in those moments when you can have a problem, because you would have to start the whole process of activating the assistant, repeating the command, etc. So, to avoid that, what Amazon has done is to give Alexa more patience. yes now the assistant will spend more time listening than usual.
This new option really falls within the accessibility improvements and while any Alexa user could benefit from it, it's something that's really geared towards users with speech impairments. That is, those who have some type of disability or who for other reasons do not speak with the same fluency.
Even so, all those who at some point have experienced the situation of seeing how Alexa stopped listening to them because they were thinking about how to say said command will also be able to take advantage of it.
How to activate more listening time in Alexa
The new option, which allows you to prolong the time that Alexa will be listening the voice commands of its users, is something that can be activated from the application for mobile devices. It can be done both from the iOS and Android apps.
Therefore, you just have to go to the application on your smartphone and then to the More section and there to Device Settings. You just have to select the Amazon Echo speaker or compatible device where you want to activate the option and that's it. If it does not appear, make sure you have the app installed and if it still does not appear, wait a bit until it is enabled. The latter can be a matter of a few hours or days.
Another improvement for Alexa accessibility
With this new option the list of alexa accessibility features It keeps expanding and that's always good news. So that all those people with vision, hearing, mobility or speech problems will be able to use the assistant in the most natural and normal way possible, without limitations compared to other users.
In addition, in some cases and combined with home automation, these options are what allow many users to lead as normal a life as possible.