Stay Home, Stay Safe with Amazon’s Alexa

By Aimee Sterk | May 12, 2020

By Laura Hall, MATP Staff In the video linked to this blog, I demonstrate just a few of the things you can do with Amazon’s Alexa that could be helpful during this time of “Stay Home, Stay Safe”. The device used in this video is the Echo First Generation, but I also mention the Echo…

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“I didn’t quite catch that. Can you repeat it?” -Siri on iPhone

By Kathryn Wyeth | January 22, 2020

By Jen Mullins, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff Voice Assistants (VAs) are software that has been programmed to listen to users and (hopefully) perform resulting actions.  “Users can ask their [voice] assistants questions, control home automation devices and media playback via voice, and manage other basic tasks such as email, to-do lists, and calendars with verbal…

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Using Amazon Echo in an Emergency

By Kathryn Wyeth | May 15, 2018
Amazon Echo Dot

By Jen Mullins, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff Earlier this year, I watched a very interesting video on the Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation PATF’s facebook page.  The woman featured in the video is a wheelchair user and shared that she uses a shower chair while showering.  She said if there’s an emergency in the shower (such…

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