Amazon Echo

If you have an Amazon Echo device, here’s how you can change Alexa’s name and voice to customize your smart speaker the way you want it to.

Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, is no longer confined to Echo devices. Alexa has leaped with time, and the smart voice assistant is available on several speakers. Plus, they are no longer the devices made primarily for issuing voice commands.

The Amazon Echo Dot 4th generation comes with an amazing array of skills and intelligence. You can surely execute a lot with this smart little assistant, from keeping track of your shopping list to controlling your smart home devices.

Waking up to custom Alarm voices is one of the many uses of any smart speaker. All the smart speakers offer alarm, be it Google Home or the Amazon Echo devices such as Echo Dot, Echo Plus, or Echo Show. One might wonder whether there is anything spec

What’s the use of a smart speaker if it doesn’t respond to your queries? One would prefer to get a simple Bluetooth speaker instead. To the disappointment of many Amazon Echo users, Alexa does not respond to their voice commands. When they issue

Amazon Echo and Spotify have been friends since 2016 — but with a few limitations. Earlier, only premium members could listen to Spotify music on Amazon Echo. That changed in 2019 when Spotify gave the same privilege to its free users in countries

Amazon Echo speakers let you stream music from various services and devices. Typically, you issue the command ‘Alexa, play music’ followed by the name of the streaming partner. If you use a service regularly, such as Spotify, you can avoi

The Amazon Echo Spot beautifully balances both looks and performance. For one, this virtual assistant is compact and can fit anywhere. Its modern circular design means it blends easily with home decor items. And well, it comes with a display. So, whe

Of all the Amazon Echo devices, the Echo Dot is one of the most convenient voice assistants to have. This one is small and lightweight and is easily portable. However, this little doughnut-shaped product can be easily mistaken for a toy, especially b

Smart speakers are cool until they start having a brain of their own. Imagine you tell a smart speaker to do something, and it does the exact opposite. One such problem happened with Amazon Echo, where it doesn’t stop the ongoing alarm when you tel

Recently, when I connected my laptop to the Amazon Echo via Bluetooth, I couldn’t hear the sound even though the media file was playing normally. When I disconnected the devices, the audio played on the laptop.

The Amazon Echo Show (2nd Generation) is a futuristic gadget from every angle. You can watch videos, ask it to tell a story or play your favorite songs in this adorable 10.1-inch display. Plus, the fact that you can use both your voice and touch gest

With a stellar sound system, a great display and plenty of skills, the Amazon Echo Show can display news and other information as effortlessly as it can read them out to you. It’s a tad bigger than its other cousins, but on the bright side, you

With a big screen and stellar speakers, the Amazon Echo Show is more than just a simple smart assistant. This smart assistant can easily play your favorite shows on Amazon Prime and your most-liked YouTube web series. More importantly, you can run a

Messaging almost killed the traditional phone calls with people preferring to talk via chat apps to a phone call. Even in the same house, one prefer messaging over calls. But it looks like things are about to change again, all thanks to smart speaker

Wi-Fi is essential for an Amazon Echo speaker for letting you interact with it by processing your commands. Without Wi-Fi, an Echo just acts as a traditional Bluetooth speaker losing its fancy features which are mostly dependant on a data network. Un

Smart speakers are turning smarter day by day. With just your voice, you can control your smart-home products, search the web, play and stream music, get your queries answered, and perform similar other tasks without using your hands or even moving a

A working internet connection is essential for the proper functioning of a smart device like Amazon Echo. And the beauty of it is that you don’t require a super fast connection to use it. But what if you don’t have Wi-Fi at home? What if

Of all the things that smartphones have replaced, speakers remain untouched by them. Even if a phone has dual speakers, it won’t ever come close to a full-blown, standalone speaker. Speakers, on the contrary, have reached new heights in the pas

Over the years, voice assistants like the Amazon Echo Plus and the Google Home have seamlessly integrated with our everyday life. With the ever-increasing number of skills, the use of these AI-powered assistants has grown to include more than the sim