Orange formalized on Tuesday the integration of the voice assistant Amazon Alexa on its UHD TV decoder.
For the past few days, the Djingo personal assistant has been gradually replaced by Alexa on the UHD TV decoders of Orange customers. The incumbent confirmed the information on Tuesday, indicating in passing that the deployment of Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, is underway and that it could take a few days.
Alexa takes the place of Djingo
With a thought for Djingo, this little angel gone too soon, Orange TV subscribers who are equipped with a UHD decoder now have the opportunity to control their decoder by voice with Alexa. The e-commerce giant’s voice assistant does not require any additional subscription. To take advantage of it, all you need to do is have an Amazon account.
The arrival of Alexa on the Orange UHD TV decoder will allow the operator’s customers to take advantage of various additional services thanks to the decoder’s voice remote control, without an additional subscription as we said, but also without additional equipment.
If you have a connected speaker at home integrating Alexa, it is also possible to associate it with the Orange UHD decoder, in order to control its decoder using voice only, in case you want to do without the remote control.
Orange gives you the freedom to integrate Alexa or not
Integrating Alexa with your UHD TV decoder is not mandatory or imposed. If you don’t want to take advantage of it, you just have to click twice on “Later” when you are offered to associate an account.
If you activate it, you will be able, in particular, via Alexa, to change the channel, adjust the volume and even search for films or series, or a particular genre of program, for example by pronouncing commands such as ” look for a comedy “. Other features (such as creating an alarm, a timer, programming a weather report, etc.) are obviously accessible by associating your Amazon account via a PC, smartphone or tablet.
It is therefore necessary, to take advantage of it, to have a customer account at Amazon, but useful precision, you will not be obliged to hold a Prime subscription.
All you have to do is hold down the micro button on the remote control while formulating the command, and release it for the artificial intelligence to process the request and the decoder to carry it out. Quite simply.
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