What is the Amazon Echo Dot?
- The Amazon Echo Dot is a hands-free device with built-in speakers, controlled by your voice.
- The device connects to the Alexa Voice Service, which allows you to play music, make calls, send and receive messages to other Amazon Echo Dot users. And, control your smart home—all hands-free.
- Alexa lets you regulate smart home devices. Switch on the lamp without getting out of bed or dim the lights from the couch. All you have to do is ask.
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Help and Advice
What is an Amazon Echo Dot? Echo Dot is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, make calls, send and receive messages, provide information, read the news, set music alarms, read audiobooks from Audible, control Amazon Video on Fire TV, and much more.
When you want to use Amazon Echo Dot, simply say the wake word, "Alexa," and the Amazon Echo Dot lights up and streams audio to the cloud, where the Alexa Voice Service is leveraged to recognize and respond to your request instantly.
Alexa is Amazon's voice service, accessed through the Amazon Echo Dot.
An intent is what a user is trying to accomplish. Utterances are the specific phrases that people will use when requesting Alexa.
Yes. You can connect compatible smart home devices to Alexa. See https://www.amazon.com/alexasmarthome for compatible smart home devices.
Alexa enables you to control and check the status of a variety of smart home devices, such as lights, outlets, cameras, and thermostats. See compatible smart home devices.
Yes, Wi-Fi is required when using Alexa and the Echo Dot.
Contact Amazon's customer service, and they'll be more than happy to assist you.
Yes, you can turn off the microphone on the Amazon Echo Dot by pushing the microphone on/off button on the top of your device. When the microphone on/off button turns red, the microphone is off. The device will not respond to the wake word, nor respond to the action button until you reactivate the microphone by pushing the microphone on/off button again. Even when the device's microphone is off, the Amazon Echo Dot will still respond to requests you make through your remote.
No, an Amazon Prime membership is not required to use the Amazon Echo Dot.
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