- #VOICE RETURNS ITS VILLAGE VOICEY INSTALL#
- #VOICE RETURNS ITS VILLAGE VOICEY MANUAL#
- #VOICE RETURNS ITS VILLAGE VOICEY PORTABLE#
(For some reason, you can ask Alexa directly to make you a coffee with the machine’s default settings, but if you want your custom drink, you need to ask Alexa to ask Lavazza.) Then, when you yell at Alexa from your bed, you can ask her to ask the Lavazza to make your custom drink. The app lets you fiddle with the settings of the coffee machine, changing how much water is used in each shot of coffee, and how hot that water is, and then save those settings under a name you’ve invented, like “Dad’s extra-weak coffee” or, in this case, “Extra-hot ristretto”. You can’t have everything! At least, by allowing coffee aficionados to create custom drinks, the Voicy rises above ‘abject pointlessness’.
#VOICE RETURNS ITS VILLAGE VOICEY INSTALL#
That’s a coffee I designed and named on the “Piacere Lavazza” app that you have to install on your phone when you’re setting up the Voicy and getting it onto your home WiFi so Alexa can work. Notice that I asked the Voicy to make an “extra hot ristretto”. You’re probably thinking that adding voice controls to a coffee machine, without fully automating everything including the glassware, is an exercise in abject pointlessness.
You’re probably asking yourself at this point, when he runs downstairs to just-in-time preload the capsule and place a coffee cup under the spout, why doesn’t he just press the little button on the machine to make the coffee, instead of running back upstairs to yell out to Alexa to press that button for him? I’d use two pods per coffee drink, except I’m not fit enough. Which is to say, the Voicy doesn’t make particularly strong coffee.
#VOICE RETURNS ITS VILLAGE VOICEY PORTABLE#
It’s sleek, portable and has a reasonably compact footprint. By way of comparison, the group-head basket in a commercial espresso machine usually has 21 grams. Running downstairs to just-in-time preload the Voicy, and then running back upstairs again to make use of its voice-controlled feature, does get the blood pumping in ways that the 7.5 grams of coffee in a coffee capsule may fail to. They can’t really automate your glassware, which means at the very least you’re still going to have to walk (or, in my case, run because my floors are very cold) to the machine to place a cup under the spout, so you might as well load in the coffee capsule while you’re at it.Īnd, look on the bright side. I’d prefer it if the Voicy were fully automated the way most voice-controlled appliances are (you don’t have to run downstairs to prepare your lights to come on, before you ask Alexa to turn your lights on, for instance), and that the coffee machine had a supply of coffee capsules that it loaded automatically the moment I yelled out a coffee request from bed.īut I can understand why Lavazza didn’t bother to add this feature, for it would still leave unsolved the problem of the coffee cup.
#VOICE RETURNS ITS VILLAGE VOICEY MANUAL#
The Lavazza A Modo Mio Voicy does have manual controls on it, which you’ll probably end up using instead of voice for everything but custom coffee drinks.
I realise I’ve forgotten to preload the machine with a coffee capsule the night before, so I run downstairs and do what I’ve come to think of as a “just-in-time” preload, which (I tell myself) has the advantage of ensuring the coffee doesn’t get stale sitting in the machine overnight with a punctured capsule. Lavazza has teamed up with Amazon to make the voice-controlled Voicy coffee machine.Īmazon’s voice control-system is called Alexa, and Alexa is built into the Voicy, allowing you to use it as a regular smart speaker – asking questions such as “Hey Alexa, what’s the weather?” – as well as use it as a voice-controlled coffee machine, as I am doing.Īnd I’m breathless because I’ve just run downstairs, popped a coffee capsule into the top of Voicy, and then run back upstairs again so I can have the pleasure of ordering coffee from bed.Įvery morning since I started reviewing the Voicy, I have to do this. I’m yelling “Hey Alexa” rather than “Hey Lavazza” because Lavazza, the Italian coffee machine maker, has just partnered with Amazon to make a new, voice-controlled coffee machine, the Lavazza A Modo Mio Voicy. Me: (breathless, yelling) Hey Alexa, ask Lavazza to make the coffee extra hot ristretto! Here is a transcript of a conversation I had from the warmth of my bed this morning:
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