Amazon Echo Review

When I went to purchase my Amazon Echo a friend of mine said, ‘Let me know how much you still play with that gadget 3 months down the road.’

I have to say, Amazon echo, also known as Alexa, is one of my MOST used gadgets! Not only do I use her all the time, but my entire family uses her all the time.

The Amazon Echo is a smart computer that responds to voice commands and does a great job at it. The Amazon Echo is 9 1/4 inches tall.

One of my favorite things to do with my Amazon Echo is to play music. The speakers are of very good quality. I was expecting the sound to be ok but not expecting it to sound as good as it does.

I use my Amazon echo for mostly playing music, telling me the forecast and adding items to my shopping list. To be perfectly honest, I’d love to have another one because I use her a lot in the kitchen and in my office and hate having to unplug and move it.

Ok, so these are some of the commands I use for Alexa. Sometimes she’s not perfect but you can go onto the online app via your phone and tell it if she did your command correctly or not. If she doesn’t, you can leave feedback on the app and an Amazon representative will contact you with how to say it correctly to get her to do what you are wanting her to do. I did this once and they were very helpful.

My kids use Alexa to play jokes. They go up to her and ask her to play music, like the Mission Impossible theme song.

If you buy the remote - Voice Remote for Amazon Echo, you can control her from another room. The remote is not necessary to control Alexa and I don’t use it all that much. Sometimes I will use the remote to do things to Alexa (“Alexa, Simon says Wash your hands”). We laugh when she says, “Wash your hands” as the kids walk by startled.

Alexa can play music from
Amazon Music (this is great for prime members so you can play free prime music)
Pandora (I use this feature the most!)
iHeartRadio
TuneIn
Audible (it can read books to you if you have an Audible account)

For example:
“Alexa, Play my today’s hit radio from pandora”
“Alexa, Thumbs up” (or thumbs down)
“Alexa, Next”
“Alexa, Stop”
“Alexa, play “Sail by Awolnation”
“Alexa, Who’s playing?”
“Alexa, Volume (1-10).” If you use volume 10 she often can’t hear you to stop but you can use the ring at the top and turn it to turn the volume back down. It will turn white when you do.
“Alexa, add this song to my playlist.”

Those are some of the many commands you can use with the music feature.
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Other commands:

“Alexa, Set a timer.” When the timer goes off, it will beep. You can tell her to stop to turn it off and the beep is pleasant.

“Alexa, set an alarm for 8am.” She can be an alarm clock.

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Shopping list features:

“Alexa, Add apples to my shopping list.” To access your shopping list you would open the Alexa app on your phone/ipad. I wish Amazon would sort the grocery items by type.

This option is fantastic when you are working in the kitchen and your hands are deep into a recipe and you can have her to add items to the list.

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To do List:
“Alexa, Add Call Doctor to my to-do list.” To access your to-do list you would open the Alexa app on your phone/ipad.

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Calendar -
If you have google calendar you can have her read your daily agenda to you. I wish it worked with Ical (Apple’s calendar).

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Traffic:
“Alexa, Tell me the traffic.” You can setup a from and to location in the phone app and she will tell you the traffic.

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General questions:
“Alexa, Who won the Detroit Tiger’s game?”
“Alexa, How many tablespoons are in a cup?”
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Weather related questions:
“Alexa, What is the weather today?”
“Alexa, Will it rain today?”
“Alexa, What is the forecast tomorrow?”

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