AT&T skill for Alexa lets you dictate and send texts with an Echo

Posted on by Jules Wang

Amazon’s voice assistant service, Alexa, knows plenty of skills. Book a flight? Done. Tell you the scores? Also done. Buy things on Amazon? Don’t be conceited — done.

But AT&T has a new “Send Message” skill it will offer so that you can use your Echo, Echo Dot, Tap or whatever Alexa-enabled device you have to get texts over to the most important people in your contacts list. You can tell Alexa your message to send and who out of ten selected contacts to send it to.

The skill, which Ma Bell claims is a first in its industry, debuts Friday.

Texting? Done.

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We need better voice transcription exclamation point

Posted on by Joe Levi

We’ve been talking to our phones since the very beginning — or so it would seem. As we’ve said before, that’s not entirely true. Although we use our phones to talk to other people, we haven’t really been talking “to” our phones, but rather “through” our phones. That started to change years ago as manufacturers began to include various features that let us control our phones with our voices. At first these were very basic and required you to record the names of those who you wanted to dial — sometimes multiple times. Others made ...

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