No More Unnecessary Responses and Chats with the New ‘Brief Mode’ Option in Amazon Alexa
Amazon well understands the concerns of its end users and is efficient and effective in coming up with the best remediation to enhance its products over time. Following this trend, they have recently introduced a new performance boosting feature, “Brief Mode”, in its intelligent personal assistant Alexa.
Alexa is the first ever virtual artificial intelligence device by Amazon. The e-commerce portal has also catered to a large market base by amazing Amazon offers and good quality products. Further, the company takes care of its customers and its needs by tapping on user interface and analyzing feedback on its products.
Alexa is used in Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, and other Echo range speakers of Amazon. This enhancement has minimized the requirements of the end users to tediously hear the command responses of their device unnecessarily.
Prior to the release of this feature, users were required to hear the “OK” speech on instructing Alexa to perform some task. The new “Brief Mode” feature have replaced all these steps with a short beep.
Apart from the beep, some devices of Amazon also enable you to set the pleasant sound of chimes for such notifications. The repeated acknowledgements from any device may sound irritating to many of the users.
Whenever you would command Alexa to perform some task (such as switching on the light in your bedroom), it would simply sound out a beep, instead of speaking something that would need your attention. As per the Engadget website, the new option of Alexa is made available in the new 2.2.202313.0 version of the iOS app in Amazon Echo device that was released on March 15, 2018.
How to Turn On the “Brief Mode” Option in Your Device?
To turn on the “Brief Mode” option in your Echo device, you would first need to start your device. Then select ‘Settings’, then ‘General’ and then ‘Alexa Voice Responses’.
You will be able to see an option to turn on the ‘Brief Mode’ option. Just select it and feel the new magic provided by Amazon. This feature has so far received lots of appreciations from the users.
Earlier the users of Amazon Alexa devices reported issues that Alexa randomly laughs at them unnecessarily after completing some task. In the first and second generation Amazon devices equipped with Alexa, whenever you would use it with some any of your command, it would speak and suggest you to use its latest “Brief Mode” feature.
Benefits of the “Brief Mode” Option
Before you switch to the new “Brief Mode” feature, you must note that the primary difference between the brief mode and the normal mode is that in the new mode, the device responses through beeping. The feature is mainly intended for comfort lovers. It is rather a luxury feature that just speeds up your efficient interactions with Alexa.
In case you like to live in silence, and do not want to hear the unnecessary conformations, you must start using this new feature. It will surely get you off from the constant verbal confirmations.
This feature makes Alexa speak to a minimal extent. You may also customize the exact messages of your device that you want to get replaced from the voice response to a beep.
Earlier, you were required to set ‘Do Not Disturb’ to disable the verbal commands and acknowledgements of Alexa, but for that also you were supposed to set a time limit. Alexa has removed all such requirements by introducing this setting.
So to conclude, Amazon has once again proven their ability to go beyond limits to provide complete customer satisfaction. Although the new feature of Alexa is currently limited to a set of devices, Amazon is expected to enhance its scope to other devices post clearing all required phases of testing.
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