

Our Amazon Echo Show 8 (2nd Gen) review describes how heartwarming it is to conduct video chats, but do you know how to make a voice or video call using Alexa? You can call someone using your Echo, Echo Dot or Echo Show, whenever you want to catch up. It's important to stay in touch with people you care about. Just say, “Alexa, send a hug” to deliver a virtual hug with any of your Alexa contacts.

Missing your loved ones? Let your friends and family know in seconds that you're thinking of them by sending a hug through Alexa. At $50/year, it's the cheapest professional monitoring service around. Not only will Alexa alert you when it sense a problem, it will contact authorities for you, too. Go into the Alexa app on your mobile phone or tablet.You might also be interested in Alexa Guard Plus, which is essentially a beefier version of the Alexa Guard.Here is a step-by-step instruction of how to play Audible books on your Alexa speaker: Playing an Audible Book on your Alexa Speaker # There are some free titles available to try out and see if you like the service, just say: ‘Alexa, what’s free from Audible?” You also get the first month and book for free and can cancel the subscription if you decide it’s not for you.

The great thing about this is that it keeps your place as you move from your phone to the other speakers in your home. You can also listen to your library using an Alexa speaker. This means you can listen to your content both online or offline. You can download books into the library on your phone. There’s a wish list where you can add new books. You can browse books on the mobile phone app or through the desktop website. If you take out the subscription (which is at the time of writing £7.99) you get one book a month included. Audible is a great way to immerse yourself in a good book, often the authors also do the narration which adds a whole new dimension to the experience.
