Amazon Echo Dot: Install and use skills
The Amazon Echo Dot is one of the most popular and best voice assistants on the market. This practical tip shows you how to install and use skills on the device.
Amazon Echo Dot: These are skills
Skills for the Amazon Echo Dot are - as the name suggests - small programs that teach artificial intelligence new functions.
- With every skill that is installed on the Echo Dot, Alexa learns new voice commands and new sources for retrieving information.
- Since the market launch of Alexa in Germany, the number of skills available has increased immensely.
- The range of functions is also becoming increasingly complex and complex, so that Alexa can respond to more and more inquiries and can help in more and more situations.
Install skills on the Amazon Echo Dot
The installation of the skills is not particularly difficult.
- First of all you need the Alexa app. Alternatively, you can also access your Echo Dot via the web app.
- After installing or opening the app, you must log in with your Amazon account.
- Your Echo Dot is then linked to the corresponding account.
- If you have not already done so, go through the setup process of the Alexa app, in which you connect the device to the WLAN, among other things.
- When this step is complete, swipe left inside the Alexa app to open the sidebar.
- In this, select the entry "Skills".
- Now you can either search for a specific skill in categories or use a search term via the search mask.
- Then select the appropriate skill.
- A wide blue bar with the lettering "Activate" appears.
- Tap on this. Then you have to wait a short time, then the skill is installed and ready for use.
Use of skills on the Echo Dot
After the installation, the question still arises how the skill can be activated on the Echo Dot at all.
- The information page about skills mentioned above also contains the relevant information.
- Under the heading "Say the following:" you can choose from a few voice commands that can be used to use the Alexa skill.
- If you no longer want to use a skill, you can go to the info page again and select "Deactivate".
We'll tell you in another practical tip whether you can use Alexa without Amazon Echo.