5 ways Amazon Alexa is your Best Companion

5 ways Amazon Alexa is your Best Companion

About 4 years ago in November 2014, Amazon launched Alexa and created a revolution in voice technology.

What is Amazon Alexa?

Alexa is a cloud-based voice service used in millions of devices by Amazon. Voice is the most natural way of communicating and with Alexa Amazon simplified the way we interact with the technology. 

Helping you plan your day, getting you out of the house, controlling your smart home, get the latest news updates or listen to your favourite songs simply by saying Alexa followed by your question. 

Alexa is the Jarvis of Ironman?

After watching Ironman, We all were attracted to the “Jarvis” that tony stark is having in the movie everywhere he goes and helping him out with everything he wants to do whether it be inside the house of while protecting the world against the deadly marvel villains.

Thanks to Amazon for bringing the virtual life Jarvis into the real-life Alexa. She is always there to help you and get your things done just with a voice command. 

She can help you plan your day, book a ride, order a pizza, search the nearest shopping mall, powering your smart home and many more.

 All you have to do is simply say Alexa and ask your question.

Why Alexa?

We are moving towards a world where everything is getting advanced from the small pen which we use to write on the paper to the touch pens we use on our mobiles and tablets to the bigger things like the self-driving cars.

Things are getting connected to the internet under the ecosystem of IoT. Controlling everything remotely just with few clicks on the mobile phone. control your AC, TV, microwave and almost every electronic gadget.

The Alexa ecosystem is powered by two powerful frameworks the Alexa skills kit and the Alexa voice service and promises to be a game changer in the future

Imagine a life where you can control everything with a voice command, isn’t it cool simply say turn on the lights and the lights will be on. 

Voice is the most simplest way of communication and with Alexa Amazon made it even simpler and more natural to communicate with the technology. Now control your entire home just over a voice command.

Alexa can do many things. Some of the main features of Alexa are

1] Play music, listen to news and get weather updates

                 Feeling Bored and alone at home ? Alexa can help you sooth your mood.

Say ALEXA …….Play  Music and Boom !! Your soft lovely music started playing relaxing your mind and body. Perfect Companion for you.

You want to get updated for present news and happening…. Ask Alexa and it will tell all the big and small news of the day for you at your convenience. Imagine any Voice Search assistant playing music for you.

2]    Get the answer to simple web queries

       Have  a Question? Ask Alexa and You will get the Most perfect Answer. Some Times even google Voice Search is slower than Amazon Alexa Search.

3]    Order things on Amazon, Domino’s, Zomato :

               Feeling hungry and tired no problem Alexa is there . Ask Alexa to order from your favourite restaurant and tadaa!!! Your food is on your door. What best you can have on your one command your food is on your door.

4]    Book a ride on Uber, Ola

               Booking a cab and wait for getting confirmation is pathetic thing always happening and you have no other way to deal with it.

Try  Alexa ….Say ALEXA….Say Book You a  ride from home to destination and rest you will have your booking confirmed and meanwhile you don’t have to hold your phone and look on for confirmation Go finish your work Don’t get late for the office.

5]    Control your smart home

It might sound a weird mix but it is the smartest speaker out in the market. It’s a lot easier to say, “Alexa, play music” than pick up your phone and do the same.

Smart Home are exactly as your smart phones are. These homes are totally digital. They have a remote control for all the functions. 


And sometimes have out of imaginations functions. And guess what you can control your smart home with Amazon Alexa. Say Alexa turn off the lights and boom lights are off, 

Say Alexa lock the doors and it’s done. This voice assistant is your best companion you can think of and a best helping hand you can imagine for.

Amazon Alexa is a very advanced feature of Voice search artificial intelligence .

The companion app has a voice training mode for you to get accustomed to things you can ask Alexa to do, such as set wake up calls or Wikipedia a subject.

I found the traffic update one of the most useful features. Just add your most frequented destination in the app and Alexa will tell you what the fastest route is and how long it will take.

Over the past few months, Amazon has also added several third-party integrations, such as IFTTT and WeMo.

You can ask Alexa to turn the devices on or off, which is great for people with physical disabilities, and extreme couch potatoes.

The Echo app does record everything you’ve ever told Alexa, so you can give Amazon feedback – or use it to incriminate your housemates if they’ve asked her something weird.

Personality-wise, she’s got less bite than Siri, but has a few little nuggets to give you a chuckle. Tell Alexa, “I am your father,” for example to get her robotic, horrified response, or ask her for a joke for some third grade level nonsense.

Other Voice Assistants Like Google Home , Cortana and most famous Apple SIRI are getting tough competition from Amazon Alexa and Day by Day its features are getting updated for making it future ready for all types of audiences. 

Even Developers are trying to make it a security assistant for senior citizens that when they are in trouble Amazon Echo with its intelligence make an emergency alert to the family members and local authority.