{"id":394466,"date":"2017-09-01T18:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/01\/alexa-coming-to-bragi-dash-october\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T18:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:28:27","slug":"alexa-virtual-assistant-coming-to-bragi-dash-wireless-earbuds-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/alexa-virtual-assistant-coming-to-bragi-dash-wireless-earbuds-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Virtual Assistant Coming to Bragi Dash Wireless Earbuds in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bragi has announced that Alexa is set to become a new feature of its Bragi Dash wireless headphones later this year. The company revealed at the IFA trade show today that a software update coming in October will allow Dash and Dash Pro owners to talk to Amazon&#8217;s virtual assistant in both English and German languages (via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/1\/16222064\/amazon-alexa-bragi-dash-ifa-2017\">The Verge<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/Bragi-dash-pro-2-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-565580\"\/><br \/>After the forthcoming 3.1 update is installed, to activate Alexa users will need to either tap an earbud or use the Dash&#8217;s &#8220;4D menu&#8221;, which relies on motion sensing to enable users to turn their head left or right and select from a virtual menu.<\/p>\n<p>While Dash (and Dash Pro) users can already use their earbuds to activate Siri and Google, today&#8217;s news means Bragi Dash are likely to become the first truly wireless earbuds to offer Alexa support, allowing wearers to, say, order a ride from Uber or a coffee from Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vBaGSAMezHw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/><em>MacRumors<\/em> reviewed the Bragi Dash Pro ($330) wireless earbuds back in July and found that the gesture controls impress, but some UI and design frustrations remain. You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/review\/the-dash-pro-review-bragi\/\">full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bragi has announced that Alexa is set to become a new feature of its Bragi Dash wireless headphones later this year. The company revealed at the IFA trade show today that a software update coming in October will allow Dash and Dash Pro owners to talk to Amazon&#8217;s virtual assistant in both English and German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":394467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-394466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}