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How to connect your Google Calendar to Amazon Echo

OUT OF THE box the Amazon Echo (and the smaller, cheaper Amazon Echo Dot) is a fantastically useful device, with its voice-activated virtual assistant Alexa giving you all sorts of information (such as weather and traffic updates) to help you plan your day, but by allowing the Amazon Echo to access your Google Calendar, you can make it even more useful.

By granting access to your Google Calendar, you can ask Alexa to tell you when your next event, appointment or holiday is, as well as quickly and easily add events

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