7 Cool Amazon Echo Tricks You Should Try With Alexa

1. Use Echo Outside US

2. Sort Skills By Release Date

If you head on over to the Skills section in the Alexa app, you will notice that there is no way to sort the (almost 3000) skills. However, if you want to sort the Skills by, say, their release date, you can easily do that using a simple work-around.

Simply go to the Skills section in the Alexa app (you can access it at alexa.amazon.com on your laptop, as well), and search for “Skills”.

The app will display all the available Skills, and you can sort the results by “Release Date”, and more.

3. View Command History

Simply go to Settings -> History. Here you will be able to see everything that the Echo has heard, and what it recognised your speech as. You can even playback the recording of what you said to Alexa, or delete the recording completely.

4. Force Software Updates

You can check the current software version on your Alexa device by going to “Settings -> Your Echo“.

Here, scroll down, and you will see the “Device software version” written.

5. Configure Flash Briefing Content

6. Short Commands

These short commands come in extremely handy when you don’t have a lot of time on your hands, and you just want Alexa to get the job done, without having to speak out the entire command.

7. Teach Alexa New Responses

Note: The actual name of the Skill is “Teach Alexa new responses – Prank your friends”, but I have used its “invocation phrase” for clarity.

Simply enable the Skill by saying “Alexa, enable Everyone Around“.

Use These Tricks to Get the Most out of Alexa