Music & Entertainment
Alexa provides hands-free voice control for music and entertainment.
Multi-Room Music
With multi-room music, you can tell Alexa to play music across your compatible Echo devices. Tell Alexa to play jazz in the kitchen, top pop in the family room, or play the same song throughout your whole home.
Getting Started is easy:
1) In the Alexa app select Settings, then Multi-Room Music
2) Select Add Group and create a new Multi-Room Music Group
3) Enjoy music across your Echo devices
FreeTime on Alexa
With FreeTime, Alexa is now a kid-friendly DJ, comedian, and storyteller. Just ask and Alexa will answer questions, read stories, tell jokes, and more – all with younger ears in mind. Plus get access to easy-to-use parental controls that allow you to add Amazon Music with explicit song filters, set daily time limits, review activity, or put the device on hold. To enable FreeTime on your Echo device, go to the Alexa app and open your device settings
Audible audiobooks
Audible’s professionally narrated audiobooks let you get lost in a story while cooking, enjoying family time, or drifting off to sleep.
Live radio
You can listen to thousands of radio stations with Alexa. Just ask:
Podcasts
Podcasts make any chore more fun. Just ask:
Kindle books
Alexa can read compatible Kindle books out loud, using the same text-to-speech technology used for news articles and calendar entries.
Entertainment & video
Add Alexa skills to expand your entertainment options. Listen to Tweets from your home Timeline or trending Tweets near you with the Twitter Reader skill. Or hear highlight clips form the latest episode of The Daily Show with The Daily Show skill.
With Echo Show, you can also watch shows on Amazon Video as well as find local movie showtimes. Just ask:
