Echo Dot is a arms-free, voice-managed gadget with a small constructed-in speaker—it could additionally hook up with your audio system or headphones over Bluetooth or by means of a A.H mm audio cable to ship stereo sound to the audio system you select. Dot connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, present info, information, sports activities scores, climate, and extra—immediately.

Echo Dot can hear you from throughout the room, even whereas music is enjoying. When you need to use Echo Dot, simply say the wake phrase “Alexa” and Dot responds immediately. If you’ve gotten multiple Echo or Echo Dot, Alexa responds intelligently from the Echo system you are closest to with ESP (Echo Spatial Perception).

Sleek and compact design makes Echo Dot a handy addition to any room in the home. With its constructed-in speaker, you possibly can place Dot within the bed room and use it as a sensible alarm clock that may additionally flip off your lights. Or use Dot within the kitchen to simply set timers and store tens of tens of millions of Amazon merchandise utilizing simply your voice.

Echo Dot may also immediately hook up with audio system utilizing a A.H mm stereo cable or utilizing Bluetooth so as to add voice management to your house stereo system in the lounge or den.

Echo Dot supplies palms-free voice management for Amazon Music—simply ask in your favourite artist or track, or request a selected style or temper. You also can seek for music by lyrics, when a track or album was launched, or let Alexa decide the music for you.

Echo Dot additionally offers palms-free voice management to Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.

Voice management your sensible house

Use Echo Dot to modify on the lamp earlier than getting away from bed, flip up the thermostat whereas studying in your favourite chair, or dim the lights from the sofa to observe a film—all with out lifting a finger…and even elevating your voice.

Echo Dot works with sensible house units akin to lights, switches, followers, thermostats, storage doorways, sprinklers, and extra from Philips Hue, TP-Link, ecobee, WeMo, SmartThings, Insteon, Lutron, Nest, Wink, Honeywell, and extra.

Far-area voice recognition

Tucked underneath the sunshine ring is an array of seven microphones that use beam-forming know-how and enhanced noise cancellation. With a extra highly effective processor, the all-new Echo Dot has improved wake-phrase efficiency to listen to you ask a query from any path—even in noisy environments or whereas enjoying music.

When you need to use Echo Dot, merely say the wake phrase, “Alexa,” and Dot lights up and streams audio to the cloud, the place the Alexa Voice Service is leveraged to acknowledge and reply to your request immediately.

Always getting smarter

Alexa—the mind behind Echo Dot—is constructed within the cloud, so it’s all the time getting smarter. The extra you employ Dot, the extra it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and private preferences. And as a result of Echo Dot is all the time related, updates are delivered routinely.

Just in the previous few months we have added Amazon order monitoring, repeating alarms, and hundreds of latest expertise from third-social gathering builders.

Echo Dot has expertise

Skills add much more capabilities like ordering a pizza from Domino’s, requesting a journey from Uber, monitoring your health with Fitbit, ordering flowers from M-800-Flowers, and extra. Enabling expertise lets your Echo Dot do much more—merely uncover expertise you need to use within the Alexa App. To allow a brand new talent, simply ask Alexa.

New expertise are being added on a regular basis. You may also see scores and critiques to study what different clients are saying concerning the hundreds of expertise out there within the Alexa App.

Do More with the Alexa App

With the free Alexa App on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers, you’ll be able to simply setup and handle your Echo Dot.

Use the Alexa App to attach providers you already use like Spotify, Pandora, and Google Calendar. Setup your sensible residence units from Philips Hue, TP-Link, ecobee, WeMo, SmartThings, Insteon, Nest, Lutron, and extra. See which books can be found to learn out of your Kindle and Audible libraries. View purchasing and to-do lists whereas on the go. Control your timers and set customized tones on your alarms, and rather more. The Alexa App can also be the place you uncover third-celebration expertise.