Amazon Alexa stands out as a solid alternative to Google Assistant and Siri. We offer you a selection to get you started with the voice assistant, between multimedia, calls, information, weather, alarm clock programming… and a few winks. To discover below!
In 2022, the possibilities offered by Amazon Alexa on the Amazon Echo are really many, and it takes time to know the right commands. Here we offer a selection of the most useful: alarm clock, multimedia, weather, information… There are of course many others, but you have to make a choice and start somewhere. This list below is already a good start.
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Basic commands
- Alexa, help
Alexa, start my day.
Alexa, how do you say “hello” in [langue] ?
Alexa, what’s on my calendar?
Alexa stop
Alexa, louder
Alexa, less loud
Alexa, turn up the volume
Alexa, turn the volume down
Alexa, play the sound
Alexa, volume [1-10]
Alexa, mute
Alexa, mute
Alexa, unmute
Alexa, turn on [appareil]
Alexa, bluetooth search
Alexa, connect to [appareil]
Alexa, on [skill]
Alexa, disable [skill]
Alexa, launch [skill]
Alexa, open [skill]
Alexa, put [radio]
Alexa, where is my command?
Alexa, play similar music (from Amazon Music)
Alexa, what are Decathlon’s opening hours?
Light bulbs and connected sockets
- Alexa, turn on [nom de l’appareil]
- Alexa, turn off [nom de l’appareil]
- Alexa, [nom de l’appareil] 50%
- Alexa, [nom de l’appareil] [couleur de votre choix]
Bluetooth and device pairing
- Alexa, connect
- Alexa, Bluetooth
- Alexa, connect to my phone
- Alexa, sign out of my phone
- Alexa, connect to my speaker
- Alexa, disconnect from my speaker
- Alexa, discover my devices
Vocabulary
- Alexa, what is the definition of [mot] ?
- Alexa, how do you spell [mot] ?
- Alexa, find me a synonym for [mot]
- Alexa, what is the opposite of [mot] ?
- Alexa, what rhymes with [mot] ?
- Alexa, what is the longest word in French?
- Alexa, give me a palindrome
Calculation and conversion
- Alexa, how much is [nombre] more [nombre] ?
- Alexa, how much is [nombre] less [nombre] ?
- Alexa, how much is [nombre] time [nombre] ?
- Alexa, how much is [nombre] divided by [nombre] ?
- Alexa, how much does [nombre] squared ?
- Alexa, what is the square root of [nombre] ?
- Alexa, how much does [nombre] cubed?
- Alexa, how much does [nombre] power [nombre] ?
- Alexa, factorial of [nombre]
- Alexa, how many [unités] in [nombre] [unité]
- Alexa, how much is 3% [nombre]
- Alexa, do [nombre] is a prime number?
- Alexa, how much pi is [nombre] near decimals?
- Alexa, divide by zero
- Alexa, how much is 100 dollars in euros?
- Alexa, how much is 1 mile in kilometers?
- Alexa, what is 35 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit?
- Alexa, how much is 1250 dollars in euros?
Heads or tails, a random number
- Alexa, heads or tails?
- Alexa, flip a coin
- Alexa, what number are you thinking of?
- Alexa, choose a number between [1] and [100]
- Alexa, choose a card
- Alexa, rock paper scissors
- Alexa, do you want to play a game?
- Alexa, what are the 7 wonders of the world?
Weather
- Alexa, what’s today’s weather?
- Alexa, is he ok [pleuvoir] [aujourd’hui] ?
- Alexa, is he ok [faire beau] [demain] ?
- Alexa, what is the current temperature?
- Alexa, give me the weather
- Alexa, am I going to need an umbrella today?
- Alexa, what’s the weather like this weekend?
- Alexa, how’s the weather in [ville] ?
- Alexa, is it going to snow tonight?
Alarm clock and timer
- Alexa, set an alarm for [heure]
- Alexa, wake me up at [heure du matin/soir]
- Alexa, wake me up [heure] with Radio France
- Alexa, delay the alarm from [heure] to [nouvelle heure]
- Alexa, set a recurring alarm for [les jours de la semaine] to [heure]
- Alexa, timer
- Alexa, set a timer [15 minutes]
- Alexa, set a timer [pizza] of [20 minutes]
- Alexa, set a second timer [5 minutes]
- Alexa, how long is the timer left [pizza] ?
- Alexa, cancel the timer [pizza]
- Alexa, cancel [le minuteur de 15 minutes]
- Alexa, what are the running timers?
- Alexa, what’s the next alarm?
- Alexa, cancel the alarm for [heure]
- Alexa, snooze
The calendar
- Alexa, what’s on my calendar?
- Alexa, what’s on my calendar [cette semaine]
- Alexa, what’s my next appointment?
- Alexa, create a new appointment
- Alexa, add [événement] on my calendar [jour] to [heure]
- Alexa, add an event to my calendar
- Alexa, what’s on the calendar?
- Alexa, how many days until [date]
- Alexa, what is the first day of [printemps] ?
- Alexa, when is [l’équinoxe de printemps] ?
- Alexa, when is the time change?
- Alexa, when are [les vacances] This year ?
- Alexa, how many years ago [1992] ?
- Alexa, when is the next full moon?
- Alexa, what time will the sun rise on [date]
Multimedia
- Alexa, play the radio [Nom de la radio]
- Alexa, play music
- Alexa, play [artiste]
- Alexa, play a song [artiste]
- Alexa, play the latest album by [artiste]
- Alexa, play the music that makes [paroles]
- Alexa, play music for [activité]
- Alexa, play music for [état émotionnel]
- Alexa, stop the music in [minutes]
- Alexa, pause
- Alexa, next
- Alexa, previous
- Alexa, turn on shuffle mode
- Alexa, turn off random mode
- Alexa, read my Kindle book
- Alexa, resume reading my book
- Alexa, next/previous chapter
Calls and messages
- Alexa, call [nom]
- Alexa, call [numéro de téléphone]
- Alexa, answer
- Alexa, hang up
- Alexa, write to [nom]
- Alexa, send a message to [nom]
- Alexa, read messages
The winks and unusual
- Alexa, talk like Yoda
- Alexa, is this a good situation scribe?
- Alexa, how’s your blanquette?
- Alexa, give me an easter egg
- Alexa, are you spying on me?
- Alexa, what is the meaning of life?
- Alexa, tell me a bad joke
- Alexa, which is the best Star Wars?
- Alexa, I’m your father
- Alexa, self-destruct
- Alexa, rap
- Alexa, who are you gonna call? (Ghostbuster)
- Alexa, winter is coming
- Alexa, what’s the magic word?
- Alexa, are you Skynet?
News
- Alexa, what’s the news?
- Alexa, give me news
- Alexa, what’s up?
- Alexa, what’s going on in the world?
- Alexa, play France Info
Online research
- Alexa, Wikipedia: [sujet]
- Alexa, tell me more
- Alexa, how much is [exemple : Donald Trump] ?
- Alexa, how many people live [exemple : New York ] ?
- Alexa, what is the population of [exemple : Gibraltar] ?
- Alexa, find the address of the [Carrefour] the closest
- Alexa, what are the opening hours of [Lidl]
- Alexa, how many days left until summer?
- Alexa, what is the capital of [la Belgique] ?
- Alexa, where is [Atlantis] ?
- Alexa, why is the sky blue?
- Alexa, how far away is the moon?
- Alexa, how many liters of water contains [l’océan indien] ?
- Alexa, who invented the [bière] ?
- Alexa, what are the chances of walking through an asteroid field?
- Alexa, how old is [Macron] ?
- Alexa, what is the temperature of the moon?
- Alexa, how far away is [Pluton] in light years?
- Alexa, how many teeth does a shark have?
- Alexa, who is the richest in the world?
- Alexa, what are the laws of robotics?
- Alexa, how long is the flight between [Berlin] and [Rotterdam] ?
- Alexa, how many kilometers between [Amsterdam] and [Los Angeles] ?
The skills games to install absolutely
Besides the default commands, it is possible to install skills. This week we offer you a selection of games. So here are some of the best skills to play with Alexa. You can install them directly via the Alexa app or by typing skills on Amazon.fr. Once activated, to launch them, simply say Alexa, launch [nom du skill] :
- Akinator, the genius of the web : This game is about thinking very hard about a person or an event – using a series of questions, Alexa must guess who you are thinking of!
- cowboy : Play 2 players cowboys. Compete against your friends and family in an extraordinary duel. When launching, you can say “What are the rules”, or “Play cowboys”
- pop charades : Do you like charades? Every day takes up the challenge of answering a charade on series, films, fictional characters, and video games!
- Did you know it or not? : exactly what the name suggests!
- Dead or alive : always useful to know if a personality is alive or not.
- Death Burger : the famous phase of the game show Burger Quizz arrives on your speaker. It’s about testing your memorization skills with 10 questions that are sometimes serious, sometimes funny, or completely crazy!
- Escape Room: in this audio escape room, you will have to find a way out of a prison cell or a car using only Alexa commands. A must !
That’s it, and that’s not bad! There are of course hundreds of other commands, but you already have enough to do with these. If there is one missing that you are used to using frequently, please let us know in the comments. Note that we offer basic commands here.
It is possible to go even further with skills, these applications integrated into Alexa by third-party publishers. It includes media, games and services. But we will come back to that later. In the meantime, you can check out our full Amazon Echo review or our Amazon Echo Spot review. Of course, if you have a Google Home we advise you to read our other special file.