About this product. The Echo Dot (3rd Gen) Smart Speaker with Alexa is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, provide information, read the s, set alarms, and more.

Users may change this wake word to "Amazon", "Echo", "Computer", as well as some other options. The features of the device include voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, and playing audiobooks, in addition to providing weather, traffic and other real-time information.

Echo Dot is our most popular voice-controlled speaker. Add Alexa to any room. Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, find recipes, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices and more.

Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based voice service available on more than 100 million devices from Amazon and third-party device manufacturers. With Alexa, you can build natural voice experiences that offer customers a more intuitive way to interact with the technology they use every day.

These devices can answer your questions, help you order essentials, set timers, play all sorts of audio content, and even function as the control hub for your growing smart home. These are our favorite Echo- and Alexa-compatible speakers for every home and budget.

Echo devices, by default, use the word “Alexa” as their wake word. While the Echo device is continuously listening, it will start analyzing and tracking whatever you say after it listens “Alexa”. After that, it comes up with relevant results. You can also change Alexa's wake word.

An echo is a sound that is repeated because the sound waves are reflected back. Sound waves can bounce off smooth, hard objects in the same way as a rubber ball bounces off the ground. Although the direction of the sound changes, the echo sounds the same as the original sound.

Echo is when the sound from the speaker comes back into the microphone. This often happens because the microphone and speaker are placed too close together, causing you to hear yourself on a slight delay after you speak.

Set your smartphone, tablet or other device to Bluetooth paring mode. Set your Echo device to pairing mode with the command, “Alexa, pair.” She'll confirm with, “Searching…” On your phone, tablet or other device, select your Echo speaker under Bluetooth settings. Alexa will announce the successful connection.

Amazon's third-generation Echo Dot ($49) looks good and sounds great. With vastly improved audio, it's now a distinctly better smart speaker than the Google Home Mini, and can replace the larger $99 Echo for less picky folks. That makes it our Editor's Choice for entry-level smart speakers.

You can play games and listen to music with Alexa. Alexa has that skill to play music and you can give a command for a particular song too. The easiest way to listen to music on an Echo device is through a music streaming service. By default, your Echo will link to Amazon Music.

Many people use the names Amazon Alexa and Amazon Echo interchangeably but there is a difference between the two. The short answer to this is: Alexa is just the AI service and not the product. On the other hand, Amazon echo is the physical device that is used to interact with Alexa.