Hellobee Boards

My husband bought one when they were Prime exclusive and I'm really not a fan. Alexa starts talking a lot when she thinks people on TV are asking her questions. It takes longer for her to spit out the weather forecast than it does for me to check it on my iPhone. Accessing your music library through the cloud is the best feature, IMO, but the voiced volume controls are clunky and she misinterprets a lot of requests. For consumer electronics in a similar price point, I'd rather have the new generation Apple TV.

We have one, DH bought it on an impulse. We have some phillips hue bulbs that he synced it with, so he mostly uses it to turn on/off the lights in that one room. I sometimes use it to play music, but you have to be weirdly specific or it will pick a random Pandora station for you, and it will only play stuff either on Prime radio or pandora stations you've synced (it won't search for public pandora stations)

@ms.line: I also find that asking it questions is cumbersome.. it repeats the question in the answer (Q: Alexa, what's the weather today? A: The weather today for the area XYZ, MD is currently X with a projected high of Z.). My brother tried asking it for NFL scores and it had no idea what he was talking about. We've tried asking what time stores opened in the area and it said it can't look that up, which I think Siri can.

Actually, I guess we use it to tell jokes a lot, the kids like that function For example, if you ask "what do you call a cow with no legs" it says "ground beef!"

Also this is me, but I have a weird internal struggle with the humanity of it all - I take pains to call Alexa "it" instead of "she" and always feel weird not saying "please/thank you" and I know that makes me sound crazy

Bumping this because Echo is on sale for Prime day. Is this something I need?

@MamaG: I found this link.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/shopping/amazon-echo-vs-amazon-tap-speaker-comparison/

I don't really listen to music at home so I don't think I need it.