"Hey, Siri" or "Hey, Google" won't work while you have the Alexa app open). You can enable the mobile apps to listen for Alexa when they're open (this will, however, disable your phone from listening for its native digital assistant's wake word - i.e. Here are some of the most prominent ways to use Alexa with the devices you already have: In fact, there are more and more ways to access Alexa being created all the time, and you don't even need any specialized devices. While the most obvious or natural way to use Alexa may be through an Echo speaker from Amazon, it's not the only way you can call up Amazon's digital assistant. Your Echo device can be convenient in the kitchen, the living room or anywhere for that matter. You can say something like, "Alexa, play folk music at volume six," or "Alexa, add bread, milk and eggs to my shopping list." You can keep issuing more commands until you're done or you say "stop."Īmazon has also built on this a multiple commands feature by allowing you to string two related commands into one. When you do, Alexa will continue to listen for another command after it's completed your first request.
There's also a feature called Follow-Up Mode that makes it easier and faster to issue multiple commands to Alexa without having to keep repeating the wake word, if you enable it. The only wake word available to the Amazon Tap is Alexa. Amazon updated the Tap with a hands-free mode that you must enable in the settings.
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If you have an Amazon Tap, Dash Wand or the Amazon Fire TV voice remote, you'll need to press a button to wake Alexa. To change it, in the Alexa app go to Settings then Device Settings then select the Echo device you'd like to change the wake word on (you have to change each device's settings individually). You can also trigger your smart assistant with Amazon, Echo or Computer. To queue up a request, just say, "Alexa." You can change the wake word to something else if, say, your own name is Alexa, or you'd just prefer an alternative. By default, Amazon's connected speakers all have the same wake word.