{"id":246959,"date":"2018-01-31T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=246959"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:37:41","slug":"send-smss-with-alexa-using-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/246959-send-smss-with-alexa-using-your-voice.html","title":{"rendered":"Send SMSs with Alexa using your voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has revealed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=202214040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Send SMS feature<\/strong><\/a> which allows users to ask Alexa to send an SMS using an Alexa-enabled device.<\/p>\n<p>Alexa sends the SMS using their mobile phone, which means that carrier charges may apply.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is currently only available to people with Android phones which run version 5.0 and up.<\/p>\n<p>Users who want to send an SMS using an Echo device must sign up for Alexa Calling and Messaging in the Alexa app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note that text-to-911, group messages, and MMS are not supported,\u201d said Amazon.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/244110-amazon-alexa-coming-to-toyota-cars-in-2018.html\">Amazon Alexa coming to Toyota cars in 2018<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexa users can ask their device to send an SMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":210532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7431,723,397,203],"class_list":["post-246959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-android","tag-sms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247025,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246959\/revisions\/247025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}