Changing Device Settings Using Your Voice; Amazon Alexa Skills And Features; Checking The Weather Forecast; Enabling Skills - Garmin DRIVESMART 76 Owner's Manual

Changing Device Settings Using Your Voice

You can say phrases like these to set device settings to a value from 0 to 10.
• OK, Garmin, increase the volume.
• OK, Garmin, set the volume to 0.
• OK, Garmin, set the volume to 9.
• OK, Garmin, decrease the brightness.
• OK, Garmin, set the brightness to 5.

Amazon Alexa Skills and Features

In addition to the navigation features offered by Garmin voice-activated navigation, the Garmin DriveSmart
device provides access to many Amazon Alexa features, such as playing music, checking the weather, or
listening to the news. You can also use the Amazon Alexa app to customize features, add streaming music
accounts, and explore thousands of skills in the Alexa Skills Store. Adding skills requires linking to your Amazon
account.
NOTE: Some Amazon Alexa skills may not be compatible with the Garmin DriveSmart device. Skill compatibility
is determined by the skill developer and Amazon.
NOTE: This feature is not available for all product models.

Checking the Weather Forecast

You can say phrases like these to check the weather forecast near you or in another area. The device speaks the
requested weather information and displays weather information on the screen.
Today's weather
• Alexa, how's the weather?
• Alexa, what's the temperature today?
Future weather
• Alexa, will it rain tomorrow?
• Alexa, what's the weather this weekend?
Weather in another location
• Alexa, what's the weather in Atlanta?
• Alexa, will it snow in Chicago this weekend?

Enabling Skills

You can enable additional skills by speaking to your Garmin DriveSmart device, or by using the Amazon Alexa
app.
• To enable a skill using your voice, say a phrase like Alexa, enable the Pandora skill..
• To browse and enable skills from the Amazon Alexa app, select Alexa Skills from the Amazon Alexa app
menu.

Playing Music and Media

You can use voice commands to stream music, podcasts, or audio books from your Amazon Music account
and other compatible Alexa skills and services. You can connect your streaming music accounts using the
Alexa app. You can also start playing media manually using another app on your phone. In this case, the device
controls playback using a Bluetooth media connection.
You can say phrases like these to play music based on genre, artist, title, album, recent releases, and more.
• Alexa, play music.
• Alexa, play some popular new rock music.
• Alexa, play my driving music station on Pandora.
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