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How to Setup Echo Dot?

Pretty much every home these days is equipped with voice-based digital assistants to give delighting user satisfaction. The voice-based digital assistant Echo Dot is a smart Bluetooth Alexa-enabled speaker, ideal for any room.

Not just can they deliver immediate knowledge, also they can make your life easier at home by controlling numerous devices with a single voice command. It is a standalone speaker that requires a working Wi-Fi connection to showcase Alexa capabilities. Alexa allows you to access podcasts, travel information, reminders, play fun games, and complete home chores. The Amazon Echo Dot is an appropriate option for you with a reasonable budget and is one of the most widespread speakers available. The Echo is completely voice-activated, and setting up this process is simple. Here, we will lead you to the setup of the Echo Dot while giving tips on the features.

Simple to Set Up & Use

1. Plug in Echo Dot

2. Connect to the internet with the Alexa App

3. Just ask for music, weather, news & more

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How To Change Alexa’s Voice

Choose between the original feminine or the newer masculine option as well as certain celebrities

How to Set up Echo Dot

➠ The entire setup process begins and finishes with the Alexa app. Download the Alexa app on your device and initiate the process.

➠ Start login to the Alexa app with your account credentials.

➠ After signing up, plug your Echo dot into a wall plug. Also, place your device at the central location. 

➠ Now, your Echo will start up and glow up a blue light. After a while, it will indicate the orange light. 

➠ Return to the Alexa app, and follow the instructions. Hit the Wi-Fi button to connect and continue.

➠ Go to the Alexa app and choose Devices (in the lower-right corner). Then add the device ( with the plus icon in the top-right or more menu in the lower-right corner). 

➠ Follow on-screen prompts on the app to select your device.

➠ Select a Wi-Fi network to which you want to connect your device. Then, enter the password.

➠ In the end, your device is good to go. This little hockey puck will connect with you through the Alexa app.

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How to Download the Alexa App

Alexa is in the hearts of many users and is recognised as the ideal assistant for the home. Alexa is a brilliant hands-free, cloud-based virtual assistant by Amazon that can do almost everything you ought to do.

The Alexa assistant can begin your day with a greeting note, set alarms, start a stopwatch, play fun games, turn on the lights, and create to-do lists through voice control. Moreover, enable Alexa to acquire access to get linked to your smart locks, thermostats, doors, and lights. Alexa app functions through AI to connect with other gadgets by working as a home automation system. Along with the above exceptional abilities, the Alexa app is easy to download.

Along with the above exceptional abilities , the Alexa app is easy to download.

➠ Initiate the process with your device’s (Android, iOS, and tablets) play store app. Find your Alexa app and start downloading it.

➠ Next, start the app and log in with the Credentials, or one can make an account for the same process.

➠ Choose to agree & continue to confirm all the terms of the app.

➠ Start unwrapping the Echo and place it in a suitable location from where it can hear you.

➠ Plug the Echo dot into a wall plug, and it will illuminate the blue light. Then, wait to glow up the orange light. 

➠ After setting up Echo, connect it with the Alexa app. 

➠ Then, proceed to connect it with the Wi-Fi.

➠ After that, say hello to your Alexa app.

Connect your Echo to Wi-Fi

To make your Home Automation experience more interactive, Echo is a dominating performer that performs as a smart home hub to manage smart home devices. Jointly with the Alexa app, these are a basis of a smart home. To perform a range of operations requires a suitable Wi-Fi connection to get the full capabilities of both.

 

➠ Install the Alexa app on your preferable device (Android, iPhone, tablet, or iPad). You can find the Alexa app from the play store.

➠ Finish the download process. Start the Alexa app and sign up with the account. 

➠ Now, take your Echo device and locate it so she can hear you. Plug in the Echo dot with the power cable and set it up in pairing mode by following the guidelines.

➠ Then, start the Alexa app and choose the Devices tab. Click the plus icon (top-right corner). 

➠ A list will pop up on the screen, and choose to add a device.

➠ Select the device that you are linking.

➠ Follow the on-screen prompts to connect with your device.

➠ After connecting, choose your Wi-Fi network and set the password.

➠ Now, your Alexa app will start performing the tasks for you. 

Alexa Skills

Nowadays, you can find Alexa in various places like homes, Offices, stylish home devices, home decor, phone apps, etc. Alexa is a digital assistant designed to answer several commands and chitchat with people. 

She can enable you to connect with the devices and offers an enormous number of capabilities right out of the box. Commands to Alexa are called skills that fulfill your wishes like listening to music, dim lights, playing a game, checking the news, and more. Alexa is remarkable, though she shimmers with her skills that make her smarter.

Skills are apps that make life and work easier by allowing users to achieve more acts with voice-activated control. One can also add more personalized features to your Alexa interaction. Alexa capabilities are compatible with a wide range of devices that allow Alexa to accomplish diverse tasks that range from joy and silly to surprisingly worthwhile. 

What Can Alexa Do For You?

The voice-controlled assistant has evolved into a pervasive personal assistant that has changed the way of living while assembling life more convenient and amusing. Alexa is a cloud-based agent that lives inside the smart speakers to control your smart home. With a straightforward voice command, she is capable of performing many tasks. Widely famous, Alexa is introducing unique methods to interact with the globe around us. Alexa reacts through its built-in speaker using skills.

➠ Keep you acknowledged
➠ Stay in touch with friends and family.
➠ Help you play the news
➠ Control your smart home
➠ Manage your lists and tasks
➠ Play audiobooks
➠ Do math
➠ Tell stories
➠ Ask for a ride
➠ Play Jokes.
➠ Stream live radio
➠ Care for an elderly relative

Enjoy The Best Features of Alexa

Alexa is evolving and integrated into our daily lives more and more with a range of voice commands for completing daily tasks. She has grown an intelligent hands-free solution that turns words into actions. Alexa powers gadgets like Echo, Echo Dot, and many third-party by-products. Alexa skills are beneficial to maintaining day-to-day activities that offer you anything you can expect. As Alexa stays to get smarter, here are some best qualities of Alexa that let the whole household get some fun.

➠ Controlling smart home tech
➠ Flash Briefing
➠ Alexa can place an order for products online
➠ Alexa calling and notifications
➠ Make Alexa talk slower, faster, or whisper
➠Big Sky
➠Playing audiobooks
➠Alexa as a kitchen helper
➠Make profiles for family members
➠ Drop-In
➠ Alexa Guard
➠ Laugh Box
➠Play Ambient noise
➠ Timer

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How to change Alexa’s voice on your Echo

➠ Materials needed: An Echo device
➠ Estimated time: About 30 seconds

Go to the Echo you want to modify and issue the necessary voice command

This even easier way to toggle between voices requires the Echo device itself. Simply go to the device and say “Alexa, change your voice.” Alexa will respond by offering you a few voices to choose from. The device will play an example, ask if you’d like to select that voice or try another voice. Once you find one you like, simply confirm your choice with Alexa and you’re good to go.

How to use a celebrity voice for select Echo commands

Amazon has introduced a handful of celebrity voices users can purchase for use on just about any Echo-branded device. At the time of writing, available voices include: 

Step 1: Ask for an introduction…

Go to any of your Echo devices, or open the Alexa app and say “Alexa, introduce me to [insert name of chose celebrity from the list above here].” Alexa will switch to the “Celebrity Personality” you chose, and will explain, in their voice, what they’re capable of. 

Step 3: Access your celebrity voice

Once you’ve set up your Celebrity Personality, you can speak to them specifically by using their wake word, “Hey, Samuel” or “Hey, Shaq,” for example. You can also enable the same celebrity voice, at no additional charge, on any other echo device tied to the same Amazon account by going to that device and saying “Alexa, enable “Hey [Samuel/Shaq/Melissa],” depending on which voice you purchased.

Step 2: Confirm your purchase

If you’d like to continue using the voice for your Echo, you’ll be asked to confirm your purchase of the Celebrity Personality of your choice. If you confirm, $4.99 will be charged to the default payment method set up with your Amazon account for use on Echo devices.

It’s worth noting that all celebrity voices will work for most common tasks. But, Amazon warns they cannot help with “shopping, lists, reminders, or skills.” The echo will instead default back to the “Original” or “New” voice for those. 

FAQs

Which devices are compatible with changing Alexa’s voice?

The vast majority of Echo devices can use any of the standard Alexa voices as well as all of the available celebrity voices. The only exceptions are the first generation Echo and Echo Dot, Alexa-enabled wearables (Echo buds, for example), and Fire TV and tablet devices. All other Echo-branded devices are compatible with the option to change their Alexa voice.

What are the available Wake Words?

As mentioned earlier, in step 5 of the smartphone app section, you can change the Wake Word for your Alexa device to something else. At the time of writing, those options include:

  • Amazon
  • Computer (likely a Star Trek reference)
  • Echo
  • Ziggy (a Quantum Leap reference)

Note: Some older devices, like the original Echo, may have fewer options available. 

Are any other voices available for my Echo?

Right now, you’re limited to the nationally accented voices, seen in step 6 above, for the full range of functionality and the aforementioned trio of celebrities for everything but Shopping, lists, reminders, and Skills. 

Amazon may release additional celebrity voice packs or additional default voices in the future. 

In the meantime, you can access several skills that will allow your Echo to have varying levels of interaction with you in other famous voices, like R2D2 and Darth Vader from Star Wars, Gordon Ramsay, or Baby Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.