Soon you will be able to chat with Alexa instead of talking to her

Being able to interact with different home devices as well as getting a response to all your requests without having to touch anything, just with your voice, is the great advantage of voice assistants. But you can't always and that's why now you can chat with Alex, so that your commands become via text.

Chat with Alexa instead of talking to her

Alexa has a great capacity for understanding, making it very easy to interact with her from any compatible device. Still, there are times when it might not be possible or convenient to do so. For this reason, one of the new options that they are testing is the one that offers the possibility of hold conversations with the Amazon assistant via text. That is, use all its options without directing you by voice but through a text chat.

This is what Alexa has just added through its application for iOS devicesAlthough the only ones who will be able to use this new Type with Alexa function at the moment are users in the United States. This means that even updating the application to its latest version, it is likely that you will not be able to use this new option or that if you have access to it, it will not respond well if you write in a language other than English.

How to chat with Alexa via text

The use of this new feature that allows you to chat via text with Alexa and thus indicate any command without using your voice is directly integrated into the app for iOS devices. Yes, for now it is exclusive for those who have an iPhone or iPad. Although we assume that now that there are Macs with the Apple M1 chip and the iOS and iPadOS applications are compatible, it will also be something that reaches these computers.

Well, for start using Type with Alexa you just have to touch the icon at the top right to access a screen similar to that of any messaging application.

In this way you will be able to write the same thing that you would say with your voice and the assistant will interpret it and carry out the same way as with the current control method up to now. Thus, if you do not want anyone to know that you are going to play on the console, you can write Alexa, turn on the Xbox and it will.

A novelty that is not really new

The possibility of writing or, rather, of interacting with a voice assistant via text is not something Alexa launches. Google assistant has long offered this same option. What's more, its use is more advanced and even during the last months it has gained the possibility of offering suggestions while chatting with it.

Likewise, this novelty that now affects Alexa may have the same or more importance due to the widespread use of said assistant. Because on the one hand there are users who cannot speak due to physical problems and want to use the Amazon option for the same reasons as the rest (integration, responsiveness, speed, etc.) And on the other, there will be someone who at some point it is more convenient to use the assistant in writing rather than with your voice.

Therefore, what is clear with this new option is that any addition that does not trim or eliminate previously available options is always great news. Now we just have to wait and see when it is available to use for each and every one of the languages ​​for which Alexa offers support. And yes, for everyone it also means for those who use Android devices and want to chat with Alexa from them.