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Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa, is infiltrating your home, your beach trips and even your ride to work. Now that there are four ways to interact with Alexa -- with the Tap, Echo and Dotdevices, and with the Amazon Fire TV -- you might find yourself talking to her more often.

The list of commands is expanding rapidly, as is the number of third-party services and devices that Alexa officially (and unofficially) supports.

Here is the (almost) complete list of Amazon Alexa commands.

Summoning Alexa

By default, Amazon's connected speakers have the same wake word. All you have to do to queue up a request is say, "Alexa." In the Amazon Alexa mobile application or at echo.amazon.com, you can change the wake word to either Amazon, Echo or Dot, depending on which speaker you have.

If you have an Amazon Tap or the Amazon Fire TV voice remote, you'll need to press a button to wake Alexa. Unfortunately, even when cradled, the Tap doesn't have a wake word.

The complete list of Alexa commands

The list of Alexa commands is expansive and grows with every new service or device it supports. Alexa isn't perfect, but it's pretty great at understanding natural language, so you don't always have to speak the commands exactly as you see them below. Many commands work when worded several different ways or even with words omitted.

When you consider the possible third-party commands through Skills, essentially the apps of Amazon's Alexa, the list goes on even further. To learn what individual skills are capable of, visit the skill's page from the Amazon Alexa app or echo.amazon.com. You can also say, "Alexa, open [name of skill]."

Here are all the native Alexa commands.

Basic commands

• Ask for help: "Alexa, help."
• Mute or unmute: "Alexa, mute" or, "Alexa, unmute."
• Stop or pause: "Alexa, stop" or, "Alexa, shut up."
• Change volume: "Alexa, set volume to 5," "Alexa, louder" or, "Alexa, turn up/down the volume."

Media controls

• Play music: "Alexa, play some music."
• Queue specific song or artist: "Alexa, play music by [artist]."
• Play Spotify music: "Alexa, play [playlist] on Spotify."
• Play Pandora station: "Alexa, play [artist] station on Pandora."
• Play a radio station: "Alexa, play [radio station] on TuneIn."
• Play an audiobook: "Alexa, play [title] on Audible," "Alexa, read [title]" or, "Alexa, play the book, [title]."
• Resume the last played audiobook: "Alexa, resume my book."
• Skip audiobook chapters: "Alexa, next chapter" or, "Alexa, previous chapter."
• Listen to Alexa read you a Kindle book: "Alexa, read me my Kindle book."
• Set a sleep timer: "Alexa set a sleep timer for 45 minutes" or, "Alexa, stop playing in 45 minutes."
• Song information: "Alexa, what's playing?"
• Music controls: "Alexa, play" or, "Alexa, next."
• Restart song: "Alexa, restart."
• Add a song to your Prime Music library: "Alexa, add this song."
• Like or dislike a song on Pandora and iHeartRadio: "Alexa, I like this song" or, "Alexa, thumbs down."

Time and date

• Set an alarm: "Alexa, set an alarm for 7 a.m." or, "Alexa, wake me up at 7 in the morning."
• Set a repeating alarm: "Alexa, set a repeating alarm for weekdays at 7 a.m."
• Set a timer: "Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes."
• Set multiple timers: "Alexa, set a second timer for 5 minutes."
• Check timer status: "Alexa, how much time is left on my timer?"
• Ask the time: "Alexa, what time is it?"
• Ask the date: "Alexa, what's the date?"
• Ask when the next alarm is: "Alexa, when's my next alarm?"
• Cancel an alarm: "Alexa, cancel my alarm for 2 p.m."
• Snooze alarm: "Alexa, snooze."
• Check dates: "Alexa, when is [holiday] this year?"

To-do and shopping lists

• Add task to to-do list: "Alexa, add 'go to the grocery store' to my to-do list" or, "Alexa, I need to make an appointment with the doctor."
• Create a new to-do item: "Alexa, create a to-do."
• Check calendar events: "Alexa, what's on my calendar for tomorrow?"
• Add an event to a calendar: "Alexa, add [event] to my calendar for [day] at [time]" or, "Alexa, add an event to my calendar."
• Create a shopping list: "Alexa, add eggs to my shopping list" or, "Alexa, I need to buy laundry detergent."
• Check your shopping list: "Alexa, what's on my shopping list?"

News and weather

• Ask for your Flash Briefing: "Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?"
• Check headlines: "Alexa, what's in the news?"
• Check weather: "Alexa, what's the weather like?" or, "Alexa, will it rain today?"
• Get a weather forecast: "Alexa, what's the weather going to be like this weekend?
• Get traffic information: "Alexa, what's my commute look like?" or, "Alexa, what's traffic like?"

• Find movies in nearby theaters: "Alexa, what movies are playing?" or, "Alexa, what action movies are playing tonight?"
• Get information on movies playing: "Alexa, tell me about the movie [title]."
• Discover nearby restaurants: "Alexa, find me a nearby pizza restaurant."
• Get operating hours or a phone number for local businesses: "Alexa, find the address for Bank of America" or, "Alexa, find business hours for Harris Teeter."
• Get IMDb rating: "Alexa, what is the IMDb rating for [movie or TV show]?"
• Get casting for a movie or show: "Alexa, who plays in [movie or TV show]?"
• Find out who an actor is: "Alexa, who plays [character] in [movie or TV show]?"
• Find an actor's latest work: "Alexa, what is [actor]'s latest movie?"
• Find out who sings a particular song: "Who sings the song [title]?"
• Get the names of band members: "Who is in the band [name]?"
• Get album information: "What year did [band] release [song or album]?"
• Find popular music from an artist: "Alexa, what's popular from [artist]?"
• Sample music from an artist: "Alexa, sample songs by [artist]."
• Find a particular album or song: "Alexa, find [song or album] by [artist]."

Math

• Convert units: "Alexa, how many [units] are in [units]?"
• Convert units: "Alexa, how many [units] are in 2 [units]?"
• Basic math: "Alexa, what's 5 plus 7?" or, "Alexa, what's 56 times 33?"
• Advanced math: "Alexa, 70 factorial." (Warning: Alexa will list numbers you didn't know existed for about a minute.)

Definitions and spelling

• Get the definition of a word: "Alexa, what's the definition of [word]?"
• Get the spelling of a word: "Alexa, how do you spell [word]?"

Sports

• Check the results of a finished game: "Alexa, what was the score of the [team] game?"
• Ask if a team won: "Alexa, did the [team] win?"
• Ask when the next game is scheduled: "Alexa, when do the [team] play next?"
• Find out the results of your favorite teams: "Alexa, give me my Sports Update."

Purchasing

• Reorder essentials from Amazon: "Alexa, buy more deodorant" or, "Alexa, reorder deodorant."
• Track packages from Amazon: "Alexa, where's my stuff?" or, "Alexa, track my order."
• Order an Amazon Alexa device: "Alexa, order an Echo," "Alexa, order an Echo Dot," or, "Alexa, order an Amazon Tap."
• Add an item to your cart: "Alexa, add garbage bags to my cart."
• Order an Uber or Lyft with their skills: "Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride" or, "Alexa, ask Lyft for a ride."
• While listening to music in Amazon Music: "Alexa, buy this song" or, "Alexa, buy this album."
• Find new music to purchase: "Alexa, shop for new music by [artist]."
• Purchase a song or album from an artist: "Alexa, buy [song or album] by [artist]."

Voicecast

• Send current listening to a Fire tablet: "Alexa, send that to my Fire tablet."
• Send to a different profile's Fire tablet: "Alexa, show this on [name]'s Fire tablet."Smart home