Alexa will shut up immediately if you say “Alexa shut up” or “Alexa SILENCE” when she’s talking. We got an echo dot which came with our Alexa enabled microwave, and now that I have it set up to stream Apple Music, we use it all the time. Our thermostat also has it although when we change the temperature she’ll sometimes inexplicably change the house temp to 60°F which we won’t realize until 3am when we’re freezing in bed.
Well it’s also an oven, I often say “Alexa preheat the oven to 400” or “Alexa air fry for 10 minutes”. For soups instead of having them explode I say “Alexa microwave at power level 3 for 9 minutes” which avoids the exploding soup problem. Of course there’s also “bake at 400 for 30 minutes”.
I also have a five year old who is pretty competent at talking to Alexa even though she can’t intuit what the button controls mean on the microwave oven.
As someone that has last used microwaves on a regular basis when they just had two dials, I could see the use for Alexa to figure out how the more more modern ones with like 40 buttons work.
The first time I tried the office kitchen microwave, I had to ask someone from accounting standing around, how to heat my cup, because that stupid thing just responded with a condescending beep to whatever I pressed :/
Was this a microwave where "hit digits to type in a time, then hit start" doesn't work? If yes then yikes. If no then you only have to learn it once and trying to use alexa sounds much more complicated.
