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PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH ALEXA |
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Chapter 1 Getting to Know Alexa |
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What Is This Alexa That Everyone's Talking About (or, Really, To)? |
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11 | (1) |
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Figuring Out Which Alexa Device You Need |
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Checking out Amazon's Echo devices |
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Learning What Alexa Can Do |
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Getting help around the home |
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Getting news and information |
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Chapter 2 Setting Up Alexa and Your Devices |
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Signing in to your Amazon account |
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Taking a tour of the Alexa app |
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Giving Alexa access to your device microphone |
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Enabling the Alexa app's hands-free mode |
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Alexa Feng Shui: Positioning Your Alexa Device |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (4) |
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Adding a third-party Alexa device |
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Personalizing Your Alexa Device |
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Giving the device a fun name |
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Setting the device location |
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Setting the device time zone |
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Changing the device language |
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Changing the measurement units |
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Changing the background images on an Echo Show |
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Connecting External Speakers to Your Alexa Device |
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Connecting speakers or headphones using a cable |
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Connecting speakers or headphones via Bluetooth |
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Disconnecting paired Bluetooth speakers or headphones |
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40 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Learning Alexa Basics |
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Getting to Know Your Echo |
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43 | (5) |
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Taking a closeup look at the far-field microphone |
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Pushing the Echo's buttons |
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Getting feedback from Alexa |
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Operating the Echo touchscreen |
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Getting Alexa's attention |
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Keeping Alexa's attention |
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Adjusting Alexa's speaking rate |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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Enabling Multilingual mode |
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Some Useful Alexa Commands |
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53 | (6) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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Calendar, reminder, and list commands |
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56 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (2) |
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PART 2 HAVING FUN WITH ALEXA |
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61 | (28) |
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Listening to Music on Alexa |
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62 | (12) |
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Playing music through Alexa |
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62 | (1) |
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Linking to a music provider |
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62 | (2) |
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Setting up a default music provider |
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Voice commands for controlling music |
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65 | (5) |
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Accessing Alexa via the Amazon Music app |
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70 | (2) |
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Playing third-party music through Alexa |
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72 | (1) |
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Listening to Other Audio Sources on Alexa |
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Tuning in to a radio station |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (2) |
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Having a Kindle book read out loud |
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79 | (2) |
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Streaming Mobile Device Audio through Alexa |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (2) |
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82 | (1) |
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Locating and playing web videos |
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82 | (1) |
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Watching Amazon's Prime Video |
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83 | (1) |
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Connecting your Alexa device to your TV |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Locating movies and TV shows |
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Playing movies and TV shows |
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Chapter 5 Communicating with Alexa |
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Managing Your Alexa Contacts List |
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90 | (5) |
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Giving Alexa access to your contacts |
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90 | (2) |
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Inviting a contact to connect via Alexa |
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92 | (1) |
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Giving a contact a nickname |
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Managing your profile and settings |
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Sending a text using voice commands |
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Sending a text using the Alexa app |
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Making Voice or Video Calls |
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Making voice calls with voice commands |
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Making voice calls using the Alexa app |
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Making video calls with voice commands |
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Making video calls using the Alexa app |
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Answering an incoming Alexa-to-Alexa call |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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Dropping In on Other Alexa Users |
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103 | (4) |
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Letting folks drop in on you |
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104 | (1) |
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Dropping in on someone using voice commands |
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104 | (1) |
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Dropping in on someone using the Alexa app |
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105 | (1) |
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Configuring global Drop In settings for your Alexa device |
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106 | (1) |
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Using Your Alexa Device as an Intercom |
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107 | (1) |
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Asking Alexa to Translate Words and Phrases |
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108 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 Using Alexa at Home |
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A Quick Word about Household Profiles |
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111 | (1) |
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Enabling Your Shopping Habit |
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Making sure voice purchasing works |
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112 | (1) |
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Getting helpful product suggestions |
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113 | (1) |
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Ship it: Placing an order |
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113 | (1) |
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Ship it again: Reordering an item |
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114 | (1) |
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Ship them: Ordering multiple items |
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Preventing accidental (wink, wink) voice purchases |
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114 | (2) |
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Did it ship? Checking delivery status |
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116 | (1) |
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Yep, it shipped: Getting delivery notifications |
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117 | (1) |
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Balancing your karma by making a donation |
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117 | (1) |
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Forging To-Dos and Other Lists |
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118 | (5) |
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Creating and managing lists |
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118 | (3) |
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Adding and managing list items |
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121 | (2) |
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Getting the Information You Need |
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123 | (5) |
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Getting the weather forecast |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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Hearing the latest news with Flash Briefing |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (1) |
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Configuring Alexa's sports update |
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127 | (1) |
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Getting sports news from ESPN |
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128 | (1) |
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Setting Up Alexa Care Hub |
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128 | (3) |
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Chapter 7 Being More Productive |
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131 | (18) |
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Letting Alexa Manage Your Calendar |
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131 | (5) |
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Linking your calendar to Alexa |
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132 | (1) |
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Setting the default calendar |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (2) |
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Getting Alexa to remind you of something |
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136 | (3) |
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Creating location-based reminders |
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139 | (1) |
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Seeing notifications for missed reminders |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (1) |
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Customizing your alarm sounds |
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144 | (1) |
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Putting Alexa in Do Not Disturb Mode |
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145 | (1) |
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Connecting to Someone Else's Echo Device |
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146 | (3) |
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Connecting to another Echo device as a guest |
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146 | (1) |
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Enabling Guest Connect on your Echo devices |
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147 | (2) |
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PART 3 GETTING MORE OUT OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ALEXA |
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Chapter 8 Asking Alexa Questions |
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151 | (10) |
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Searching for Nearby Places |
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152 | (1) |
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Asking for Financial Info |
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152 | (1) |
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Getting Symptoms and Other Medical Facts |
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153 | (1) |
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Asking Alexa to Do the Math |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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Quizzing Alexa about the Culture |
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156 | (1) |
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Bugging Alexa about Books |
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156 | (1) |
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Asking Linguistic Questions |
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157 | (1) |
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Asking Questions about Companies |
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158 | (1) |
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Asking about Dates and Times |
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158 | (1) |
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For Everything Else: Querying Wikipedia |
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159 | (2) |
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Chapter 9 Adding Skills to Alexa |
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Understanding What a Skill Is |
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161 | (1) |
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Checking Out Amazon's Alexa Skills Store |
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162 | (4) |
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166 | (1) |
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Enabling a skill with a voice command |
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166 | (1) |
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Enabling a skill using the Alexa app |
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167 | (4) |
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168 | (1) |
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Viewing your enabled skills |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (1) |
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Thirty Cool Alexa Skills to Try |
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171 | (3) |
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174 | (3) |
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Chapter 10 Making Alexa Accessible |
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177 | (14) |
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Controlling Alexa If You Have a Speech Impairment |
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177 | (4) |
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Making Alexa more speech accessible |
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178 | (1) |
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Installing a text-to-speech app |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (1) |
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Checking Out Alexa's Features for the Hearing Impaired |
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181 | (3) |
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Making Alexa more hearing accessible |
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181 | (2) |
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Enabling closed-captioning |
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183 | (1) |
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Enabling Alexa captioning |
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183 | (1) |
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Enabling Alexa's Features for the Vision Impaired |
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184 | (7) |
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Making Alexa more vision accessible |
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184 | (1) |
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Navigating with VoiceView |
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185 | (3) |
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Zooming in with Screen Magnifier |
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188 | (1) |
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Using Show and Tell to identify items |
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189 | (2) |
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PART 4 CONTROLLING YOUR SMART HOME |
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191 | (46) |
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Chapter 11 Setting Up Your Smart Home |
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193 | (22) |
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What's So Smart about a Smart Home? |
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194 | (4) |
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Working with smart-home devices |
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195 | (1) |
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Understanding smart-home connections |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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Do you need a smart-home hub? |
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197 | (1) |
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Setting Up Your Smart-Home Devices |
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198 | (6) |
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Installing a Wi-Fi smart-home device |
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198 | (2) |
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Understanding Wi-Fi Simple Setup |
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200 | (1) |
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Discovering smart-home devices using an Alexa skill |
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201 | (2) |
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Discovering Zigbee smart-home devices |
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203 | (1) |
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Managing Smart-Home Devices |
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204 | (4) |
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Viewing your smart-home devices |
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204 | (1) |
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Renaming a smart-home device |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (1) |
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Disabling or deleting a smart-home device |
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207 | (1) |
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Working with Smart-Home Devices |
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208 | (7) |
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Controlling a smart-home device |
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208 | (1) |
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Working with device scenes |
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209 | (2) |
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Turning smart plugs on and off |
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211 | (1) |
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Working with smart lights |
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211 | (1) |
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Controlling smart thermostats |
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212 | (1) |
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Keeping an eye on things with smart cameras |
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213 | (1) |
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Other types of smart-home gear |
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213 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 Uncovering Some Smarter Smart-Home Techniques |
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Creating Device Rooms and Groups |
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216 | (4) |
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Creating a smart-home room or group |
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216 | (2) |
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Controlling a smart-home room or group |
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218 | (1) |
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Managing a smart-home room or group |
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219 | (1) |
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Alexa in Stereo: Working with Speaker Sets |
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220 | (3) |
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221 | (1) |
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Playing music through a speaker set |
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222 | (1) |
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Streaming Music to Multiple Rooms |
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223 | (4) |
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Setting up multi-room music |
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224 | (1) |
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224 | (2) |
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Fixing multi-room music sync problems |
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226 | (1) |
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Home Sweet Home Theater: Combining Alexa with Fire TV |
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227 | (1) |
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Automating Alexa with Routines |
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228 | (4) |
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Understanding routine actions |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (2) |
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232 | (1) |
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Getting to Know Alexa Guard |
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232 | (2) |
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Working with IFTTT Applets |
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234 | (3) |
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Connecting your IFTTT and Amazon accounts |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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Checking out some Alexa applets |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (46) |
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Chapter 13 Ten (Times Ten) Ridiculously Fun Alexa Tricks |
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239 | (8) |
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Ten Ways to Ask Alexa to Tell a Joke |
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240 | (1) |
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Ten Alexa Wordplay Tricks |
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240 | (1) |
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Ten Ways to Get Alexa to Sing |
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241 | (1) |
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Ten Oddball Things to Ask Alexa to Do |
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242 | (1) |
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Ten Funny Questions to Ask Alexa |
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242 | (1) |
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Ten Ways to Get Alexa to Tell a Story |
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243 | (1) |
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Ten Ways to Get Personal with Alexa |
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244 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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Chapter 14 Ten Things That Can Go Wrong (and How to Fix Them) |
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247 | (16) |
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248 | (2) |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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Alexa or Your Echo Device Is Unresponsive |
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250 | (1) |
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Your Echo Device Isn't Using the Latest Software |
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251 | (1) |
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You Can't Connect to Your Wi-Fi Network |
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252 | (2) |
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You're Having Trouble Streaming Media |
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254 | (1) |
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You're Having Trouble Connecting a Bluetooth Device |
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255 | (2) |
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You don't see a Bluetooth device |
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255 | (1) |
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You can't pair with a Bluetooth device |
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256 | (1) |
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You Ordered Something Accidentally |
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257 | (1) |
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Alexa Doesn't Understand Your Commands |
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258 | (1) |
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You're Having Trouble Making Calls |
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259 | (1) |
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You Changed Your Wi-Fi Network Password |
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260 | (1) |
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A Smart-Home Device Doesn't Work Properly |
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261 | (2) |
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Chapter 15 Ten Ways to Beef Up Security and Privacy |
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263 | (20) |
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Make Sure Your Wi-Fi Network Is Locked Up Tight |
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264 | (3) |
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Delete Your Saved Wi-Fi Passwords |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (2) |
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Stop Alexa from Listening (and Watching) |
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270 | (1) |
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Trash Sensitive Alexa Recordings |
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271 | (4) |
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Enabling and using deletion by voice |
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271 | (1) |
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Configuring Alexa to delete your recordings automatically |
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272 | (1) |
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Deleting selected recordings |
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273 | (2) |
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Configure Alexa Not to Use Your Personal Data |
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275 | (1) |
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Shut Down Alexa's Communications |
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276 | (2) |
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277 | (1) |
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Revoke access to your contacts |
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278 | (1) |
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Secure Your Amazon Account |
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278 | (3) |
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Give your Amazon account a bulletproof password |
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279 | (1) |
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Turn on Amazon's two-step verification |
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280 | (1) |
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Revoke a Skill's Permissions |
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281 | (1) |
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Deregister Your Alexa Device |
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282 | (1) |
| Index |
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