Customer Ratings & Reviews

You can quickly amplify the voice of a lecture or turn it up for a party. Not only that, you can set alarms for naps with your voice and no longer have to worry whether your alarm is on.

I love Alexa. She pretty much runs the whole household. Talk about smart? My favorite part is she can control the thermostat. If you're thinking of getting one she'll be waiting at Best Buy!

It sits there all day at the ready. You can just ask it a question like math or unit conversion. You can ask about the weather. Ask it to play music; turn the volume up or down, skip, or restart.

We've had a great time with Alexa. For entertainment, and for smart home uses. She remains an infant and I'm hopeful for expanded technology. It's going to be a must have in the future.

Have 2 Echo's and 1 Dot located in out two homes. Love all of them...very versatile and provide needed information and entertainment when and as needed. Very useful and cost effective.

Hats off to Amazon - The Echo I started with - not have 2 Dots too in the home. Music, alarms, to do list, shopping list and just home automation is awesome! I'm in the 22nd Century now!!!!

I was totally stoked about this product because I was purchasing a new home. However, the property fell through and I returned the product but the little bit I had it...I loved it!!

I received the Dot for Christmas and loved it! So when I had the Best Buy dollars, I splurged and bought the Echo! Now I have the Dot in my bedroom and the Echo in family room for fun!

It is a neat gadget; can do some things like track items for a shopping list and setting timers that are great. I would have expected it to be better at telling me things like when is TV show X on and what sound does a Cardinal (bird) make. All were met with "I didn't understand the question." Alexa should be more intuitive than that and should learn and grow as you go along, she does not. You also have to ask things in a way Alexa will understand. For example, you cannot say, "Alexa, turn out the lights in the kitchen." That "does not compute." But if you say, "Alexa, shut off the lights." She will do as you ask. I had to start writing down the "correct" way to ask her things so I would remember them. Again she needs to learn and adapt; not happening so far.

We ask Alexa questions all day, recently, I received a gift of Amazon Prime, now I have Alexa read my free books while I work around the house! my husband asks weather and ballgame scores.

IAlexa is a good tool to get families together. We gathered around to take turns asking questions. it pushes the voice recognition software because there are more than one voices to "learn" from. Poor on written instructions but online feedback is very responsive and helpful.

This is a great product! I was a little skeptical in the beginning of how much it could actually do and assist, but after playing with this for a couple of hours I realized it was an amazing product. The sound is very comparable to one of the top leading Brand speakers!

Its pretty cool. A lot of teaching it things, but once you get it down easy from there. I am able to control the TV, hue lights and listen to music from any Bluetooth device connected.

Bought two of these Dots for my granddaughters. One had asked for one - the other did not but both were very happy and excited to get them. Hope they don't use them to do their homework.

Purchased the Alexa to act as a vocal head to my smart home setup. It does this very well. She will tell you the weather on command and plays music too. Can also act as a bluetooth speaker.

I was very interested in the Echo and respective echo dot based on potential functionality. While there are some good qualities, the overall voice automation and functionality haven't lived up to the hype yet. Pros: sound quality for music is fantastic, kids enjoy asking Alexa questions, overall family fun. Cons: even after a full month of learning my voice, Alexa continues to frequently answer "I don't know what you are asking", at random times, Alexa will start talking without any prompt, setting up additional controllable items and syncing are not as easy as Amazon would have you believe, and worst experience....every time an amazon echo commercial comes on tv to promote the product, my Alexa replies to the TV commercial as if it were me saying "Alexa...."

We love the Echo. Great sound for music, turning lights on and off and now have it connected to our Roomba. We also ordered the battery for it as to move it outside for the music.

Wondering why I spent $150 for the Echo when I could have purchased the Dot for $40 and does everything the Echo does...and more! With the Dot you can stream music to Bluetooth speakers, which can't be done with the Echo.

The Bluetooth speaker is nice very loud and I love how it connects to my Hue! Which makes controlling my lights so simple and being able to listen to radio stations such as IHeartradio.

I bought the Amazon Echo as a gift for my wife for Mother's Day and she's used it everyday since. My kids utilize the 'Simon Says' game and it also serves as a great music player.