Amazon Alexa it can turn out like the best assistant on Android, so the benefit of this speaker becomes important if you have one already available. Those users who have one can now enjoy the voice commands, since they work in a more than correct way.
Today we are going to teach you to set Alexa as the default assistant on Android, as well as to use it with the voice command to call the assistant. You can take great advantage of it, being a good competitor with the Google assistant, for quite some time in a very mature phase.
How to put Alexa as an assistant on Android
First of all, download the Alexa application from the Play Store, it is necessary to have it installed to start working with it. With it, it is possible to configure devices with Alexa, thereby listening to music, finding out about the latest news, creating a shopping list, among other things.
Once you download and install it, we log in with the Amazon account to start using the Alexa assistant, we will have to use the one we use for the Amazon page. You also have the possibility of creating a new user for use, but for that you will need to use another email account.
Android application settings
The first step is to access Settings> Applications> Default applications> Voice input and assistant, in this case the Google assistant comes by default, we choose Amazon Alexa to start working. You need to do this if you want to use Alexa as a new assistant.
Once this step is done we we go to the Alexa application created on our Android desktop, we have it with the name of Alexa. We will need to have it open for voice recognition, so once you open it you can work with it from now on.
If we ask for example the time, Alexa will tell us what time it is at that moment, If we do it now, it will tell us that it is 12:00 hours. It still needs to open applications, for example if we say that it opens the camera it does not, but it is already working for a better user experience.
Useful Commands
Amazon Alexa answers a ton of questions, from doing some math account, telling jokes, translating Spanish to English, singing quite famous songs, etc. Another thing is to be able to ask him for music so that he can play us any song that we want to listen to at that specific moment.
If we tell Alexa we're on our way, that we arrive soon in communication mode, it is usually received by the device or devices if you have more than one Alexa at home. For this we launch the message so that you receive it and know that we are coming home.
We can also send other commands such as Drop In, for this we make a call to contact the connected devices in the house. We can silence or stop the call, among other things that become useful if we want to do it by voice commands with Alexa.
