Amazon Echo, Amazon EchoDot, and Amazon Tap allow their owners to do hundreds of cool things using Alexa voice commands. Users can play music, listen to audiobooks and get the day’s news for a few popular names. However, there are some lesser known Skills that may not come to mind right away. We looked through the long list of Skills and found the 50 coolest things you can do with the Amazon Echo, Tap or Dot. These also work on a newly updated Amazon Fire TV, thanks to the voice feature on the remote.
Using Built-in Alexa Skills
Ask Alexa to read your Audible Audiobooks.
Amazon continues to add new third-party capabilities as developers build them, but they’re also adding built-in capabilities. These work for all Alexa users. Here is a list of the most useful built-in Alexa skills.
Ask Alexa what the weather is like. Open the app or Web site To see a more detailed report like this on your Alexa Cards.
To find more, go to: help page. Also, open Alexa Cards and see all your interactions with Alexa. Above you will see a screenshot of the website’s detailed weather report.
How to Add Alexa Skills to Your Echo, Dot, Tap or Fire TV
Before using some of these Skills, the user must add them to their account for the Skill to work on their device. Open the Amazon Alexa app and tap the menu button in the top left corner of the app.
Tap the menu button in the upper left corner of the Amazon Alexa app, then tap Skills.
A menu scrolls from the left side of the screen. Tap on Skills to open the Skills list. Each page lists ten Skills and the app displays more than 60 pages of Skills. Search for the Skills list using the search box at the top of the list to narrow things down. This is the best way to find the Skills listed below.
Tap Activate to turn on a Skill.
If you try a Skill and don’t like it, tap Disable and this will turn it off so Alexa won’t use it again.
Amazon Alexa Skills for Echo, Tap, Dot and Fire TV
You can find the full list of Alexa Skills available here: Amazon’s website. If you are logged into your account, you can also activate them from this page.
Connect to Home or Vehicle Automation with these services…
Stock Market – Get stock quotes and find out what those stocks are doing that day.
ALOP Pilates Class – Guides users through a 20-30 minute workout.
Ask Cloud Ninja – Are you using Amazon Web Services, then you can find the news about the service from Cloud Ninja.
Counter – Before going to a movie “Batman v. Ask Box Office for the rating of Superman” and it gives the movie a BoxOffice score of 1 to 10.
Pianist – If he says “Ask the pianist for an A”, he will play the note again. This is great for tuning an instrument. It will also offer a warm-up routine.
College Basketball Trivia – Play a game that tests your college basketball knowledge.
Information about Seinfeld Fans – Asks Seinfeld trivia questions by saying ‘Open Seinfeld Trivia’
Capital One – For the bank’s customers, say “Open Capital One” or “Make a credit card payment” from Alexa and it will pay your minimum payment. It also tells you balance and recent transactions.
Quick Events – Connects to Google Calendar and allows users to quickly add events with voice commands like “Tell Quick Events to add Meet with John Lambert at 3 PM tomorrow”.
Meat Butler – “Ask Meat Butler to help me prepare a steak” will give you the right temperature to cook meat sous vide or grill.
Packet Tracker – Threshold will help you track shipments based on what they find in your email inbox using services like Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange, iCloud, and IMAP.
Magic Door – An adventure game of the kind we played in the early days of computers. It includes three adventures – a forest, a garden and an ancient temple.
Area Code Search – Ask the Area Code “where is eight two eight” and it will tell you it is Northwest North Carolina.
bargain mate – Informs the user about daily deals from Woot and Meh shopping services.
Domino’s Pizza – Orders your Easy Order that users create using the Domino’s Pizza app or website.
Tough guy – Tells Chuck Norris jokes.
Milo – Just “Ask Milo where I can watch The Lord of the Rings” and Milo searches the database to find it as a stream online.
TV Shows – Notifies the user when a certain program is broadcast on the TV.
tutor for Alexa – Teach young people basic math skills.
SMS with Molly – Uses the smswithmolly.com service to send free text messages from anyone in your contact list on the site.
Uber – Take an Uber ride by asking Alexa.
Holy book – Use the Life.Church online Bible to have your Alexa device recite Bible quotes or read chapters from the Bible for you.
Star Wars Quiz – Official trivia game from Disney
Post code – Ask Alexa “where is 28690” and it will give you the city and state.
food idea – Ask Alexa Meal Idea to give me meal ideas and offer suggested meals.
danger – Play a Jeopardy game by saying “Alexa, play Jeopardy”.
7 Minute Workout – Get a 7-minute workout with Alexa guiding you along the way.
Use IFTTT with Alexa
Connect Alexa to IFTTT and use a large collection of awesome IFTTT tasks.
Amazon and IFTTT got married. Now users can connect their Amazon Echo, Tap, Dot or Fire TV to IFTTT using Alexa. get over your head Open IFTTT and Alexa channel to start. Once you’ve done that, start using IFTTT with Alexa to do a number of cool things. Here is a list of some of our favourites.
