How to Enable Whisper Mode & Alexa Hunches

Amazon just released a brand new feature to the Echo devices running Alexa. Whisper mode. When enabled, if you whisper something to Alexa, she will whisper the responses back to you. This is super useful for late night queries or turning off lights via Alexa at night when everyone is sleeping. When enabled she will whisper pretty much everything back and also maintain the whisper voice during followup conversations. Whisper mode is pretty amazing behind the scenes and uses one of Amazon’s new AI neural networks to analyze speech patterns to see if a person is whispering. Future versions will be able to tell if you are sick (and possibly recommend buying cough drops or medicine) as well as moods and inflection. Hunches when enabled will use machine learning to analyze patterns in your smart home activity to suggest things that you might want done. If Amazon realizes that you normally turn on the kitchen lights when launching your Flash briefing, Hunches might have her suggest it when you ask to play the Flash briefing. Guard Mode builds on the same Neural network that powers Whisper awareness to also have your echoes listen for Breaking Glass and sirens when you are not home. If heard and understood, it would notify you via push message to you mobile that an event might be happening at your home. Additional Write up and explanations: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/10/how-to-enable-alexa-whisper-mode-and.html Follow Up Mode: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/03/alexa-gets-multi-command-mode-sort-of.html Brief Mode: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/05/new-feature-alert-amazon-alexa-brief.html Amazon Announcement: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/09/amazon-take-my-money.html PARTS LIST: * Echo Dot Generation 3 (https://amzn.to/2CWQwBG) Find all the source code for my Smart House (and Device lists) on my Github Page : https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig#devices You can read about all of this in greater detail on the Website: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/ CONTACT ME: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/about-me SUPPORT: Please consider supporting this channel by visiting the blog and/or using the Amazon Affiliate links found in the descriptions. They cost nothing extra and really help the channel. Affiliate Disclosure - https://www.vcloudinfo.com/p/affiliate-disclosure.html 👋 About this channel : My Name is Carlo. I've been running Home Assistant for a BUNCH of years. Almost from the very beginning actually. This channel is focused on bringing what I have implemented at my own house to you so that you can bring it to your house. The channel will be a mix of reviews, tutorials and inspiration. It is a companion to my GitHub site that holds all the code for my Smart Home and my main site where I keep the more in-depth technical writings. I hope you will enjoy the videos and consider subscribing. CREDITS: Design by Steve Fatone - IG: @Steve_Fatone