An Amazon Echo or Alexa device can be used in several ways. There are various flavours of Amazon Echo devices like All-new Echo Dot (4th Gen.), Amazon Echo Show 5, Amazon Echo Spot, etc. and each one of them comes to life when a user says “Alexa” (A, L, E, X, A). In this post, I am going to explain five different ways of integrating this smart device into everyday life.
(1) Shopping list creation: We can ask Alexa to add/remove items to/from shopping list and ask to list items from shopping list. To achieve this, we give command to Alexa by saying,
Alexa, add milk to shopping list.
Alexa, add rice and eggs to shopping list.
Alexa, what is in my shopping list.
Now when we go to a grocery store, we can find the items in the shopping list, by looking at the Amazon Alexa app in our phone.
(2) Getting weather information: We can ask Alexa about the weather information before going out of home or to plan weekends/holidays. For example,
Alexa, how is the weather today?
Alexa, how is the wind?
Alexa, how is the weather for the next 7 days?
(3) Alarms and Reminders: It is very useful to setup alarms and reminders for a particular day or time or for everyday using Alexa. For that we command Alexa as,
Alexa, set an alarm at 5:15 am tomorrow.
Alexa, set up a reminder for 2:30 pm.
Alexa, set up a reminder everyday at 8 pm for “Take medicine”.
(4) General knowledge: Alexa can search for and provide us various information from the internet. For example,
Alexa, what is the distance between Toronto and Montreal?
Alexa, how far is the moon?
Alexa, convert 38 degree Celsius into Fahrenheit?
(5) Fun: We can also use Alexa for fun like singing a happy birthday song or telling a joke and so on. For example,
Alexa, tell me a joke?
Alexa, tell me a kid’s story?
Alexa, sing a happy birthday song.
Finally, I would say that having a smart home/personal assistant like Amazon Alexa device or any other vendor's device is really useful. It has helped me save time and is also fun. I would definitely recommend it.
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