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General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: renegade600 on November 17, 2016, 03:27:49 pm

Title: sending text messages
Post by: renegade600 on November 17, 2016, 03:27:49 pm

starting tomorrow you will be able to send text messages with alexa if you have at$t service using their skill.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/att-customers-can-now-send-a-text-message-with-amazon-echo-300365319.html

Title: Re: sending text messages
Post by: waltlange on November 17, 2016, 03:57:48 pm

My wifi service provider is Verizon. Is anyone aware of texting skills available for my carrier?

Title: Re: sending text messages
Post by: mike27oct on November 17, 2016, 05:46:22 pm

Since we have AT&T, it's interesting, although has a small incremental advantage over what I do now.  That is to take out my iPhone and send a text via voice instead of typing it in.  It even could be a higher advantage over Siri which likes to unnecessarily auto correct spelling too often!  We'll see how it goes.

Title: Re: sending text messages
Post by: kevb on November 17, 2016, 08:22:35 pm

I'm pretty sure there's an IFTTT recipe to send "pre-written" texts to a specific number from an android phone. Could be useful for common texts like "need anything from the grocery store?"  or "leaving now"