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Become Alexa to tell you your appointments

Out of the box the Amazon Echo (and the smaller, cheaper Amazon Echo Dot) is a fantastically useful device, with its voice-activated virtual assistant Alexa giving you all sorts of information (such equally weather and traffic updates) to assist y'all programme your day, merely by allowing the Amazon Echo to access your Google Agenda, y'all can make it fifty-fifty more useful.

Past granting access to your Google Agenda, you tin can ask Alexa to tell you lot when your side by side consequence, engagement or holiday is, likewise as apace and easily add events or reminders to your calendar.

Anything you add with Alexa will be displayed on your Google Calendar and whatever other device that you lot take synced with your Google Calendar will as well display the new events and reminders – helping you to never miss an of import date e'er again!

Read on to find out how to connect Google Calendar to Amazon Repeat and utilise Alexa to view and create events.

Amazon Echo currently just works with Google Agenda, which due to its popularity won't be too much of a trouble for many people. All the same, it's not ideal for those of us who don't use Google Calendar.

Thankfully, it's quick, easy and free to set up a Google Calendar business relationship and import your existing calendar into Google'southward offer. If you already have a Google Agenda you lot can skip this step, but otherwise caput over to https://www.google.com/calendar and sign in using your Google Account.

If yous don't have 1, click 'Create business relationship'. Once signed in you'll your calendar. To import events from some other agenda, click the down arrow next to 'Other calendars' in the carte on the left-manus side of the screen and select 'Import Calendar'.

This volition allow you lot to import calendars saved on your device in ical or CSV files. Depending on the calendar service or program you've previously used, you should be able to export your existing calendars as these files.

If you lot use an online calendar service and so you can try adding the URL of the calendar past selecting 'Add by URL' instead.

2. Add the calendar in the Alexa app

You should accept Amazon's Alexa app already installed on your smartphone or tablet, as this helps y'all configure the Amazon Echo when you first ready it up (if not y'all can go it from the Google Play Store or Apple tree App Store).

Open up the app, then tap the icon of 3 horizontal lines in the pinnacle left-paw corner of the app to brandish the menu. Next, select 'Settings' and so under where information technology says 'Business relationship' tap on 'Calendar'. Click on the 'Google' push, then 'Link a Google Calendar account'.

Sign in to the Google Account connected to your Google Agenda, and when you're asked to requite Alexa permission to view and manage your calendar, tap on 'Allow'.

In one case that's connected y'all can return to the Alexa app, and you should see your account has been added.

If you accept a number of calendars in your business relationship, you tin apply the drop downwards box to select which agenda you want Alexa to create new events in.

iii. Utilize Alexa to hear about appointments or create new events

Now that your Amazon Echo is continued to your Google Calendar, you can get Alexa to check your calendar. Here are some of the things you lot can ask Alexa to do with your calendar:

Alexa, when is my adjacent upshot?

Alexa, what'south on my calendar?

Alexa, what's on my calendar tomorrow at 9PM?

Alexa, what's on my agenda Saturday?

If you want to add an event to your calendar, say "Alexa, add an effect to my calendar." Alexa will and then enquire y'all questions to complete the issue.

You tin can also set up specific events by saying something such every bit "Alexa, add together "Doctor'south date" to my calendar for Monday, January 16, at 1PM).

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