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Amazon Echo gets new multi-account support, BART schedule access

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Amazon has rolled out a couple updates to their Amazon Echo home assistant appliance to help improve its usefulness. The first new feature that will impact the most users is the ability to play audiobooks and music from multiple Amazon accounts.

Users can fire up the Amazon Alexa companion app on their mobile device to add new accounts to the Household Profile setting. The Amazon Echo device has a couple new commands available once accounts are added. These include “Alexa, switch accounts” so users can move between them on the fly and “Alexa, which account is this?” if you happen to lose track of which account is currently active.

The other new feature will only benefit users in the San Francisco Bay area. BART schedules are now available through Amazon Echo by adding BART Times as a “Skill” in the Amazon Alexa app. Users can then use the command, “Alexa, open Bart Times” in order to check the schedule for home and destination stations.

source: ZDNet

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