Customer Ratings & Reviews

I received my Echo as a gift. I use it often for keeping lists, acquiring weather information and whenever I I have a question. I gave this Echo as a gift and the recipient loves it as much as I do.

Echo-Dot is doing the same thing. Just doesn't have the huge speaker. Echo-Dot can be connected to external speakers via blue-tooth or cable (though it's speakers are not bad for voice responses from it)

I love my Echo that I received for Christmas from my wife that I bought it for my son in law for his birthday. He has Amazon prime so he can do much more with the Echo. I will be subscribing also.

Seriously ... nothing more addictive. Add skills to your hearts content. Start your day with your briefing, review your calendar, set timers, etc ... yep, no wonder it was this year's Elmo for adults!

does so much at a voice command. music, news, weather, answers questions, but becareful. it doesn't distinguish voices, so someone could buy something and charge it to your prime or credit account

Amazing fun getting into the technology age. Connected Echo w Philips Hue lights and Bluetooth speakers. All works great. Wifi consistency a must. Takes getting used to asking a non-human questions!

Great sound. Great for playing music, or controlling your home. With some exceptions. Don't expect Alexa to answer any questions you have though. "sorry, I don't know the answer" is a common response. Obviously google home is going to have great access to google but can't Alexa at least TRY?

My whole family loves Alexa. We play games (20 questions, jeopardy, etc), get weather updates, turn on or dim lights, update the grocery list and much more. She also sings Happy Birthday with us!

Alexa is a great product. She seems to know everything, whether its math, music,sports, it just doesn't matter. I think my wife is jealous of her because I spend too much time with her(Alexa).

This is the best tech device for the home. It keeps one company and communicates with the owner. It might be a life saver for the single person, the lonely elderly, and the young that likes new technology.

Bestbuy came through before the holiday better than Amazon--item available, arrived within 2 days, competitively priced. Great service there. My problem is with disappointing performance by Echo. Siri wins over Alexa. Issues encountered: 1) a skill will be installed, but Alexa will tell me first, I need to install the skill and second, that the skill is already installed. User is stuck in a do-loop with no response. 2) access to quick 1-sentence read from Wikipedia is appreciated, but if you ask 'tell me more,' Alexa's voice is so rushed and computerized, some of the information is unintelligible. 3) tons of skills, but so many of them are at a micro level and others are 1-time gimmicks. If you are not careful, you then need a skill to help you with all the skills you've installed. 4) responses on some of the more interesting skills are just plain wrong. Vocabulary on word master is limited, so you will told your response is not a word that begins with "X" and we have had instances where our correct response on Jeopardy is reported as not correct. In one skill about a magic door (?) a clue is described, but when selected, you are sent backward a step with the same clue offered again. Frustrating and makes you feel you are doing something wrong or not speaking clearly. Children can get frustrated quickly. 5) access to music is quirky. Some pieces by classical composers will play only a few minutes of a selection, abruptly stop and begin a new piece. But some singers and ambient pieces will play for hours. Positives: flash briefing, weather, word definitions, Pandora access timer.

This this works awesome with my hue light systems. I set up my weather and news to get daily info. The one minor trouble is that you have to make sure you anunciate so it doesn't misinterpret you.

Alexa is really awesome, she does all kinds of cool things to make life easier. My only recommendation to Amazon is that they try to make her more 'intuitive' and remember habits or repeated phrases.

I seen the commercial and had to have it. My husband and kids got me this for mother's day, I'm so happy and love it.

Alexa is handy and a lot smarter than I thought it would be. I can also see it being used for homework for the answer and not the formula. We can't stop that. Nice addition to the living room.

This is a must buy , it really is awesome !!! Really like its versatility in Mobile ness I wouldn't recommend this to anybody that was interested in a portable speaker and I love talking to it Alexa!!!

Picked up the Amazon echo on sale and have loved it. It's great to have Alexa play an artist or band I want, here how the weather is, or current news. It's been a great addition to our house.

We love this. Alexa is so intelligent and our son loves her. Also you get a discount on amazon music. You can hook the echo up to tvs, lights, and more. Just tell her what you want her to do

Bought this for my son and daughter-in-law for Christmas. Had so much fun asking Alexa questions when we visited. Especially useful for weather forecast before heading out for a day of sightseeing!

Alexa is awesome. She controls the lights in the house, keeps me up to date, and dressed for the weather. I enjoying discovering what else I can do with her. Ask her who is the fairest of them all!