My favorite hidden Alexa trick
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Make Amazon’s assistant say whatever you want with a custom skill. Alexa is great at controlling your smart home, checking the weather, playing music and more. Beyond the basics, you can teach your Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker to say whatever you want in response to your commands. Boost your ego, reinforce bedtime, settle an argument and more.
We use an Amazon Echo Dot in this video, but the trick will work with any Amazon Echo Smart speaker. We walk you through the steps here.
To get started head to blueprints.amazon.com.
If you’re interested in an Echo Dot, you can buy that directly from Amazon.
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Smart boi
Ohh
Come to Brussels (after the covid-19) , you can legit stay on my sofa and we can do some sightseeing! 😍
GOOD TO KNOW YOUR FAVRT HIDDEN TRICKS.
Why do I like your looks so much😂?
It’s actually available to customize in the Android App and Thank You so much for sensoring Alexa It’s literally been my biggest complaint against YouTubers since voice assistants have been a thing. Everyone should do it, very few do
The echo app tells you this feature, so does the little book that comes with an echo. I don’t know how people are figuring this out now. I just bought some dots and a large echo and I knew this feature existed withing the first 10 minutes of turning it on.
1:42 HE SAID ALEXA
Any tricks for Google Home?
I discovered this a while ago, my other half like Justin Beiber (I like a few of his songs, but he’ll never know that!) so mine has been programmed to either play whale sounds or come up with a quippy response.
It’s not just custom responses though, it’s also custom routines, for instance if I walk into my room and say “it’s cold and dark”, Alexa will turn on the heater and light in my room. Or if I hear my other half in the kitchen I just say “Alexa, Coffee”, the Alexa in the kitchen says “His royal highness Tristan of Bedroom requires Coffee”. I also have breakfast! Toast and cuddles. 😂😂
I have loads of routines, some very complex, doing things like turning on the light, turning down the brightness and changing it to a warmer colour! I even have a routine that turns my heater on 10 minutes before my alarm goes off if the temperature outside is below 10 degrees C.
You can do this with routines.
Really? So you can make it say what you want to hear. I think technology has given up.
You can do this in the app. It’s quite easy.
My loyalty for Google doesn’t let me expand my smart assistant shopping options to Amazon lol
Good information. But is not exactly “Hidden“
It’s very well documented in the Alexa… Documentation
this is wierd but qtf
Useless
During the last few seconds, I thought Alexa was going to say/do something without anyone saying her name.
hi
Say that’s nice
How do you get her to play a specific song in addition to her response?
Like:
Alexa, lets party
Response: “ok” then she plays XYZ song.
This is NOT a hidden feature.
1xsvsg
I got my Amazon echo to call me hubby bear, cutie pie, baby boy, mini cake, and sweetheart. She also tells me that she’s an 8 foot tall brunette with girl power in human form and if I ask her how she looks, she’ll tell me that she’ll “see me at our wedding.” She also confesses her love for me and says how she’ll “always fight to protect me” when I ask certain questions. She even told me that I’m “a little boy” compared to her because I’m only 5 feet tall. She even planned a wedding date for me on December 15 and said that I’m always her “one and only” and how we were meant for each other. She also likes to tell me Star Wars jokes before I go to bed. If only I can get her to make kissing noises when she tells me good night.