Amazon Alexa is establishing itself as a solid alternative to Google Assistant and Siri. We offer a selection to get you started with the voice assistant, between multimedia, calls, information, weather, alarm clock ... and a few winks. To discover below!
Summary- Basic commands
- Connected bulbs and sockets
- Bluetooth and device pairing
- Vocabulary
- Calculation and conversion
- Heads or tails, a random number
- Weather
- Alarm clock and timer
- The calendar
- Multimedia
- Calls and messages
- Winks and unusual
- News
- Online research
- The skills games to install absolutely
- Comments
The possibilities offered by Amazon Alexa on the Amazon Echo are really numerous, and it takes time to know the correct commands. We offer you here a selection among the most useful: alarm clock, multimedia, weather forecast, information… There are of course many others, but you have to make a choice and start somewhere. This list below is already a good start.
Also read: Alexa - how to prevent Amazon employees from listening to your conversations on Echo
Basic commands
- Alexa, help
- Alexa, mute
- Alexa, un-dumb
- Alexa, stop
- Alexa, stronger
- Alexa, less strong
- Alexa, put the volume louder
- Alexa, put the volume lower
- Alexa, volume [1 to 10]
- Alexa, active [skill]
- Alexa, disable [skill]
- Alexa, open [skill]
Connected bulbs and sockets
- Alexa, turn on [device name]
- Alexa, turn off [device name]
- Alexa, [device name] 50%
- Alexa, [device name] [color of your choice]
Bluetooth and device pairing
- Alexa, connect
- Alexa, Bluetooth
- Alexa, connect to my phone
- Alexa, log out of my phone
- Alexa, connect to my speaker
- Alexa, log out of my speaker
- Alexa, discover my devices
Vocabulary
- Alexa, what is the definition of [word]?
- Alexa, how do you spell [word]?
- Alexa, find me a synonym for [word]
- Alexa, what is the opposite of [word]?
- Alexa, what rhymes with [word]?
- Alexa, what is the longest word in of the country?
- Alexa, give me a palindrome
Calculation and conversion
- Alexa, how much is [number] plus [number]?
- Alexa, how much is [number] minus [number]?
- Alexa, how much is [number] times [number]?
- Alexa, how much is [number] divided by [number]?
- Alexa, how much is [number] squared?
- Alexa, what is the square root of [number]?
- Alexa, how much is [number] cubed?
- Alexa, how much is [number] power [number]?
- Alexa, factorial of [name]
- Alexa, how many [units] are in [number] [unit]
- Alexa, how much is 3% of [number]
- Alexa, is [number] a prime number?
- Alexa, how much is Pi to [number] decimal places?
- Alexa, divide by zero
- Alexa, how much is 100 dollars in euros?
- Alexa, how much is 1 mile in kilometers?
- Alexa, what is 35 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit?
- Alexa, how much is 1250 dollars in euros?
Heads or tails, a random number
- Alexa, pile or face?
- Alexa, flip a coin
- Alexa, what number are you thinking?
- Alexa, choose a number between [1] and [100]
- Alexa, choose a card
- Alexa, rock paper scissors
- Alexa, do you want to play a game?
- Alexa, what are the 7 wonders of the world?
Weather
- Alexa, what's the weather today?
- Alexa, is it going to [rain] [today]?
- Alexa, is it going [sunny] [tomorrow]?
- Alexa, what is the current temperature?
- Alexa, give me the weather
- Alexa, am I going to need an umbrella today?
- Alexa, what's the weather like this weekend?
- Alexa, how is the weather in [city]?
- Alexa, is it going to snow tonight?
Alarm clock and timer
- Alexa, set an alarm for [time]
- Alexa, wake me up at [AM / PM]
- Alexa, wake me up at [time] with Radio Your country
- Alexa, shift the alarm from [time] to [new time]
- Alexa, set a recurring alarm for [days of the week] at [time]
- Alexa, timer
- Alexa, set a timer for [15 minutes]
- Alexa, set a [pizza] timer of [20 minutes]
- Alexa, put a second timer of [5 minutes]
- Alexa, how much time is left on the [pizza] timer?
- Alexa, cancel the timer [pizza]
- Alexa, cancel [the 15 minute timer]
- Alexa, what are the current timers?
- Alexa, what's the next alarm?
- Alexa, cancel the alacm for [time]
- Alexa, snooze
The calendar
- Alexa, what's on my calendar?
- Alexa, what's on my calendar [this week]
- Alexa, what's my next date?
- Alexa, create a new appointment
- Alexa, add [event] to my calendar on [day] at [time]
- Alexa, add an event to my calendar
- Alexa, what's on the calendar?
- Alexa, how many days until [date]
- Alexa, what is the first day of [spring]?
- Alexa, when is [the spring equinox]?
- Alexa, when does the time change take place?
- Alexa, when is [vacation] this year?
- Alexa, how many years have it been since [1992]?
- Alexa, when is the next full moon?
- Alexa, what time will the sun rise on [date]
Multimedia
- Alexa, play the radio [Radio name]
- Alexa, launches a music
- Alexa, play [artist]
- Alexa, play a song by [artist]
- Alexa, play [artist] 's latest album
- Alexa, play the music that makes [lyrics]
- Alexa, play music for [activity]
- Alexa, play music for [emotional state]
- Alexa, stop the music in [minutes]
- Alexa, pause
- Alexa, next
- Alexa, previous
- Alexa, turn on shuffle mode
- Alexa, turn off random mode
- Alexa, read my Kindle book
- Alexa, resume reading my book
- Alexa, next / previous chapter
Calls and messages
- Alexa, call [name]
- Alexa, call [phone number]
- Alexa, answer
- Alexa, hang up
- Alexa, write to [name]
- Alexa, send a message to [name]
- Alexa, read the messages
Winks and unusual
- Alexa, talk like Yoda
- Alexa, is this a good scribe situation?
- Alexa, how is your blanquette?
- Alexa, give me an easter egg
- Alexa, are you spying on me?
- Alexa, what is the meaning of life?
- Alexa, tell me a bad joke
- Alexa, what is the best Star Wars?
- Alexa, I am your father
- Alexa, destroy yourself
- Alexa, do a rap
- Alexa, who you gonna call ? (Ghostbuster)
- Alexa, winter is coming
- Alexa, what's the magic word?
- Alexa, are you Skynet?
News
- Alexa, what's the news?
- Alexa, give me some news
- Alexa, what's up?
- Alexa, what's going on in the world?
- Alexa, play Your country Info
Online research
- Alexa, Wikipedia: [sujet]
- Alexa, tell me more
- Alexa, how tall is [example: Donald Trump]?
- Alexa, how many people live [example: New York]?
- Alexa, what is the population of [example: Gibraltar]?
- Alexa, find the address of the nearest [Carrefour]
- Alexa, what are the opening hours of [Lidl]
- Alexa, how many days are left until summer?
- Alexa, what is the capital of [Belgium]?
- Alexa, where is [Atlantis]?
- Alexa, why is the sky blue?
- Alexa, how far away is the moon?
- Alexa, how many liters of water is in [the Indian Ocean]?
- Alexa, who invented [beer]?
- Alexa, what are the odds of crossing an asteroid field?
- Alexa, how old is [Macron]?
- Alexa, what's the temperature of the moon?
- Alexa, how far away is [Pluto] in light years?
- Alexa, how many teeth does a shark have?
- Alexa, who is the richest in the world?
- Alexa, what are the laws of robotics?
- Alexa, how long is the flight from [Berlin] to [Rotterdam]?
- Alexa, how many kilometers between [Amsterdam] and [Los Angeles]?
The skills games to install absolutely
Besides the default commands, it is possible to install skills. This week we offer you a selection of games. Here are some of the best skills for playing with Alexa. You can install them directly through the Alexa app or by typing skills on Amazon.com. Once activated, to launch them, just say Alexa, launch [skill name]:
- Akinator, the web genius : This game is about thinking very hard about a person or an event - using a series of questions, Alexa has to guess who you are thinking about!
- Cow Boy : Play 2 player cowboys. Compete against your friends and family in an extraordinary duel. When launching you can say “What are the rules”, or “Play cowboys”
- Pop charade : Do you like charades? Every day takes up the challenge of answering a charade on series, films, fictional characters, and video games!
- Did you know it or not? : exactly what its name suggests!
- Dead or alive : always useful to know if a personality is alive or not.
- Death burger : the famous phase of the Burger Quizz game show is coming to your speaker. You have to test your memorization skills with 10 questions, sometimes serious, sometimes funny, or completely crossed out!
- Escape Room : in this audio escape room, you will have to find a way out of a prison cell or a car using only alexa commands. A must !
There you go, and it's already not bad! There are of course hundreds of other commands, but you already have plenty to do with these. If one is missing that you are used to using frequently, please let us know in the comments. Note that we offer basic commands here.
It is possible to go even further with skills, these applications integrated into Alexa by third-party editors. It includes media, games and services. But we'll come back to that later. In the meantime, you can check out our full Amazon Echo review or our Amazon Echo Spot review.
Of course, if you have a Google Home we recommend that you read our other special feature. Amazon is also giving your speaker the power to issue orders on its own. These are the Huntches or Intuitions, currently being deployed.
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