Alexa just got Santa Claus as a voice — how to try it now

Alexa just got Santa Claus as a voice — how to try it at present

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Keeping with the spirit of the holidays, Amazon has introduced a brand-new novelty voice for its popular cloud-based voice service Alexa, and it's none other than Santa himself.

In club to become Alexa to change to the voice of 'Ol Saint Nick on whatsoever one of the best Alexa speakers, you'll simply need to speak the command, "Alexa, enable 'Hey Santa.'" Afterwards doing so, you lot can get straight to engaging with everyone'southward favorite bearded souvenir-giver in a variety of funny and unique manners.

As for precisely what all you tin can do with Alexa'south festive new vox, there's actually quite a lot. You lot tin can ask Santa to sing you holiday songs, or he can tell you some interesting stories. If you lot brand a asking for it, he'll even popular off a few jokes to get you laughing. Of course, y'all tin also have him practise all of the things y'all've already come up to rely on Alexa for, but information technology's plain extra fun to set a timer when you have a jolly vox confirming information technology on the other end.

In addition to these general features, yous can ask Santa a diverseness of Christmas-specific questions for some humorous responses. Merely say "Hey Santa" before asking, and then you can rattle off some inquiries most his favorite foods, or ask him about his beloved reindeer. Even improve, if yous ask him if you're naughty or overnice, he'll hit you with some questions of his ain to determine just how deserving you are of presents this year.

Non every single question can be answered by Santa, unfortunately. You might be surprised at how many voice lines are bachelor, but there are limitations. When yous encounter one, still, you tin resort back to simply asking Alexa equally y'all normally would before returning your attending to Santa.

Other popular Alexa voice changes have included celebrities like Shaq, Samuel L Jackson and Gordon Ramsay, but they typically come up at a toll. Luckily, Amazon has opted to give us all a vacation gift this year, as you lot tin go Santa talking at no additional charge right now.

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