(Full-on joking: you enter the credentials in binary)
You press one of the buttons until it goes into AP mode and it beeps. Connect to it and provide your actual WiFi credentials and away it goes.
Can't do speech recognition since that's done in the cloud and won't work without a Internet connection.
Amazon has a development center named A2Z. There's also Lab126... Lab 1-26... Lab 'A'-'Z'.