Amazon Echo gets trigger phrases with IFTTT
If you use Amazon Echo with IFTTT, an automation app that can create conditional statements for web-based services, you might be excited to hear that Amazon Echo’s IFTTT capabilities are expanding. With IFTTT, you can now setup trigger phrases for Amazon Echo, which when activated, will do a specific action whether that be setting a reminder, altering the color of your smart bulbs, and so on.
It’s fairly simple: you create the trigger phrase in IFTTT, and then when you ask Amazon Echo’s virtual assistant Echo to trigger a certain action, IFTTT will do all of the automation required in the background. For example, as IFTTT demonstrates in its Google+ post, you can setup trigger phrases like “Alexa, trigger party time” or “Alexa, trigger find my phone.”
The only caveat is that saying the phrase “trigger” feels silly. Many have complained about this already, but there’s really no other way around it. Overall, it’s a handy feature and will make Alexa a bit smarter when asking Amazon Echo to do something.
Has anyone tried this new feature out yet?
source: IFTTT (Google+)
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