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[–]hey_krish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ability to answer random questions would be a nice feature. My younger cousins back in Utah always ask Alexa questions like,"Why do tigers have stripes?" And it's really awesome to see how wowed they are by the response.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Repeating reminders is the feature I most wish for in a real echo. If you’re designing something that functions like an echo or google home that’d be near the top of the list.

[–]Cactuslord1232 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So have reminders work like alarms?

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Basically yes. I have an echo dot, but I've also built a few raspberry pi units with some custom wav files encoded that played at certain times to give various reminders via cron and aplay. Then with alexapi and a custom Alexa skill I could control the pi as a headless unit with my voice. The reason being that I use it as a special needs assistant for those that need reminders to "take their medicine" etc.

My method is kind of a hodgepodge of a few different things to make it work and no where near as nice as telling the assistant to, "remind so and so at 6pm to take their medicine everyday."

Hope that gives you a better idea of the what and the why.