With a new speaker and design, Echo Dot is a voice-controlled smart speaker with Alexa, perfect for any room. Just ask for music, news, information, and more. You can also call almost anyone and control compatible smart home devices with your voice.

Play music using your voice with the Amazon Echo Dot. Use your voice to play a song, artist, or genre through Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, and others. With compatible Echo devices in different rooms, you can fill your whole home with music. Also listen to Audible, podcasts, radio stations, or pair with Fire TV to voice control movies and entertainment.

Amazon Echo Dot: Simplify everything with one device. Make your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers, add items to lists, and create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather, or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie showtimes, restaurant hours, or information.

Voice control your smart home with just one smart speaker. Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the coffee maker on your way to the kitchen, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie"all without lifting a finger.Control multiple devices with a single voice command, like locking the doors and turning off the lights at night. Learn more about over 10,000 compatible smart home devices, including lights, thermostats, TVs, and more.

Call family and friends hands-free. Call almost anyone hands-free using your voice. Use Drop-In to instantly connect to another compatible Echo at home or send an announcement across Echo devices, like calling the family for dinner or reminding the kids to go to bed.

Amazon Echo Dot: Skills. Alexa has more than 50,000 skills and counting. Skills are like apps and help you do more such as playing Jeopardy!, meditating with Head space, and falling asleep to rain sounds. Create your own personal skills and custom responses with Alexa Skill Blueprints. Just say Alexa, help me get started with skills.New skills are being added all the time. Discover them in the skills section of the Alexa app or visit the skills store.

Amazon Echo Dot: Design. The 3rd Generation Amazon Echo Dot is easier on the eyes than either of Amazons two previous Echo Dots. It offers rounded edges that help make the Dot look less like a hockey puck, and the fabric grille around the outer edge feels modern and classy simultaneously. (Amazon has been taking pointers from the Google Home Mini, apparently.