how can I increase the local merchant contact information for Amazon Echo (2nd generation)?
Hello and Good Evening Everyone,
I am wondering how I might be able to increase the local merchant contact information for my Amazon Echo (2nd generation). It seems to be pretty limited on this capability at the moment.
Thank you
George
I am wondering how I might be able to increase the local merchant contact information for my Amazon Echo (2nd generation). It seems to be pretty limited on this capability at the moment.
Thank you
George
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Hello and Good Evening Martin,
I apologize for the lack of clarification of my question. Perhaps I can get my concern across clearer if I provide an example. If I ask Alexa to provide the telephone number to Domino's Pizza, it will only find one and provide its address and telephone number even though there are others within my city. The match that it finds is not the closest one either from my current zip code. That said, I am wondering why it will not provide listings for the other Domino's Pizza locations.
On a side note, I really need to review your submitted link. To be perfectly honest, the answer to my question could be within your submitted link. I need to check it out. Thanks for your research which has led up to this link.
George
George
I apologize for the lack of clarification of my question. Perhaps I can get my concern across clearer if I provide an example. If I ask Alexa to provide the telephone number to Domino's Pizza, it will only find one and provide its address and telephone number even though there are others within my city. The match that it finds is not the closest one either from my current zip code. That said, I am wondering why it will not provide listings for the other Domino's Pizza locations.
On a side note, I really need to review your submitted link. To be perfectly honest, the answer to my question could be within your submitted link. I need to check it out. Thanks for your research which has led up to this link.
George
George
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Hello and Good Evening Martin :-)
Thank you very much for your tips and suggestions. I do believe that Alexa already has my zip code programmed within it. For instance, if I ask, "Alexa, what is today's forecast"? Alexa will reply with the name of my current city and begin giving feedback about the weather forecast. As you pointed out within your excellent examples, much of the feedback given by Alexa is dependent on the contextual structure of the question or questions phrased to it. At this point, I believe some trial and error will be needed to gain a sense of a happy medium with Alexa when it comes to certain questions.
Thanks, Martin, for your well thought out feedback.
George
Thank you very much for your tips and suggestions. I do believe that Alexa already has my zip code programmed within it. For instance, if I ask, "Alexa, what is today's forecast"? Alexa will reply with the name of my current city and begin giving feedback about the weather forecast. As you pointed out within your excellent examples, much of the feedback given by Alexa is dependent on the contextual structure of the question or questions phrased to it. At this point, I believe some trial and error will be needed to gain a sense of a happy medium with Alexa when it comes to certain questions.
Thanks, Martin, for your well thought out feedback.
George
You are very welcome George. I picked up some of the intricacies of talking to Alexa through seeing how she responds to my wife and myself. My wife would ask Alexa a question and get a poor response, so I would have to re-phrase the question to get the one my wife was looking for. It's a bit like searching on Google in that regard.
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Can you clarify what you mean by increasing the local contact information? Are you hoping to have more local merchants come up when you ask Alexa a question like "Where is the closest donut shop?" If so, this guide from PCMag.com should help make local searches more robust https://www.pcmag.com/feature/361730/how-to-get-local-information-from-amazon-s-alexa/6. Otherwise Alexa only defaults to using what is listed locally in Yelp.
Another thing that should help with local searches is making sure you have at least your zip code information input into your Alexa device. The PCMag article says you can do that from your phone, but you can also do that from the web at alexa.amazon.com.
If you mean something else by increase local merchant information, please describe what you mean and I'll try to help you. Hope this information is useful!
Martin Nguyen