Amazon Echo

How to listen, delete, and ask Amazon not to save your Alexa voice recordings

Ankur Thakur ∙ November 12, 2021

Echo is a series of smart voice assistant devices by Amazon. You can review and listen to voice commands given to Alexa on your Amazon Echo, inside the Alexa app, and any other device with Alexa built in. From here, you can delete the voice recordings individually or in bulk. The settings also allow you to stop saving your Echo recordings. Finally, you can even ask Amazon to no longer use your Alexa voice recordings for evaluation and training purposes. This'll ensure no human hired by Amazon listens to them. In this guide, we show you how to do all these using the Alexa app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, and the Amazon website in a browser on Mac or PC.

HomePod mini vs Amazon Echo: Which should you buy?

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ December 3, 2020

Apple introduced a tinier version of its popular HomePod called HomePod mini. This smart speaker is not only smaller in size, but also in price as compared to its parent. Both of these features put the HomePod mini more in the running as a direct competitor to the Amazon Echo.

Whether for yourself or a gift for a loved one, you might be trying to decide between the two (or three including the Amazon Echo Dot). To help, we have a comparison of HomePod mini versus Amazon Echo. Hopefully this will help you pick the best smart speaker for your home or someone else’s.

How to use Alexa’s Drop In and other communication features

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated May 14, 2024

Learn how to use the Alexa communications features with the Alexa phone app and Amazon Echo to have a simple intercom system in your home.

How to use the Alexa app for your alarms, reminders and timers

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated May 13, 2024

Learn how to use the Alexa app to set alarms, reminders, and timers on your iPhone or your Amazon smart speakers, such as the Echo Dot.

How to set up and play Spotify on Alexa

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated May 6, 2024

Learn how to listen to Spotify using Alexa on your Amazon smart speaker. We'll also show you how to make it the default music service so you don't have to say "on Spotify" in every voice command.

How to play Apple Podcasts on Alexa and Amazon Echo

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated May 19, 2024

Learn how to link Apple Podcasts to Alexa so you can play your favorite shows and episodes on an Amazon Echo speaker using your voice.

Amazon’s Echo Buds may soon be able to track your workouts, according to the Alexa app

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 6, 2019

As previously suspected, Amazon appears to be in an early testing phase of a new feature that'd let customers track workouts with their Echo Buds earbuds, which unveiled in September.

Amazon updates Echo lineup: better audio quality, an Echo Dot with a clock, and more

Evan Selleck ∙ September 25, 2019

Amazon is hosting an event today that will see a variety of new hardware products announced, most of which will focus on the Echo lineup of smart speakers.

Apple Music with Alexa is launching today on German Echo devices

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 20, 2019

According to a new report, Amazon customers in Germany who own an Echo smart wireless speaker or an Amazon Fire TV from the company, or an Alexa-enabled Sonos speaker, will be able to ask the Alexa assistant to play Apple Music content beginning later today.

Apple HomePod still struggling to grab market share despite price drop

Evan Selleck ∙ August 8, 2019

The HomePod is not doing so well as far as market share is concerned, at least based on new information from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.

How to use your iPhone shopping and to-do lists with Alexa

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ July 24, 2019

You can do some really cool stuff with your iPhone and the Alexa app for your Amazon smart speaker. You can use Alexa to find your phone, listen to Apple Music, manage your iCloud Calender, and more. So, why not use this combination of devices to keep up with your lists?

Depending on which iPhone shopping or task list app you use, you might be able to take advantage of it with Alexa. Here’s how to use your iPhone lists with Alexa and your Amazon speaker.

Amazon reportedly working on an Echo speaker to compete directly with the HomePod

Evan Selleck ∙ July 12, 2019

Amazon has a variety of Echo speakers available already, including the Echo Show with a 5.5-inch display that it announced earlier this year. But it sounds like it has another one on the way.