(Sorry, lyrics don't come up with rival music-streaming services like Pandora or Spotify.) Don't Be Dim, Set the Brightness Tap the screen and you get controls for pausing, skipping back and forth in an album or playlist, setting the list to randomize, or putting it on repeat.
(Pay extra for Amazon Music Unlimited for more than 70 million tunes.) What's really great is the majority of those songs have lyrics you can view in real time as the music plays, line by line, right on the Echo Show screen. Got Amazon Music? You do if you have Amazon Prime, meaning you have access to about 2 million songs to play on your Echo Show. And if it sounds terrible, yell "Alexa, reset the equalizer." (The equalizer is also available for Echo devices without a screen, just use the voice commands or the mobile app.) Karaoke Night With the Stars Simply say "Alexa, turn up the treble" or "Alexa, turn down the bass," etc. But you don't really need to visit the sliders. Then drag the sliders to where you want them. You'll find it by going to Settings > Sounds > Equalizer on the Echo Show. Like any good speaker, the Echo Show has an equalizer that lets you adjust the level of bass, mid-range, and treble. I couldn't get Hulu to work, but found YouTube (via the browser), Food Network Kitchen, RedBull TV, and Tubi. For example, say "Alexa, launch Netflix" to get the app on screen. Now there's support for more (at least for now). It used to be the only native video streamer on the Echo Show was, naturally, Amazon Prime Video.
Tap the bookmark icon in the toolbar up top to bookmark it. There's no native YouTube app on the Echo Show devices, but you can watch YouTube videos by going into the Silk browser ("Alexa, open Silk") and loading m. (the mobile site). Under Advanced, you can also change the search engine used from Bing to Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo.
Silk can scale web pages, save passwords, offer safe browsing from dangerous sites, and clear browsing data like history and cookies. Go to Settings > Device Options > Web Options > Browser > Browser Settings. (Amazon used to offer Firefox as an option, but the deal died in April.) So if you'll be browsing any websites, make sure Silk is set to do your bidding. Silk is the browser Amazon bundles on most Fire devices. Say "Alexa, go to settings" (or swipe down from the top and tap Settings), then tap Home & Clock> Clock & Photo Display > Personal Photos > Background and check off the linked services you want to use. You can also toggle on "Daily Memories" or "This Day" for highlights manually pick only a handful of pics or select just one pic. Here, you can link the Echo Show to your phone's photos, Amazon Photos, or a Facebook account. Find your Echo Show and tap Photo Display. To change the background imagery on your Echo Show, open the Alexa app, tap the hamburger menu in the lower right, and go to Settings > Device Settings. (At the very least, you need access to the website.) Once your Echo Show is set up, read on for some tricks that make this touch-screen smart speaker such a treat.
It's how you control a number of settings for Amazon Echo devices, whether they have a screen or not. Many of the tips below require the Alexa mobile app on your smartphone (snag it for iOS or Android). Sound quality notwithstanding, an Echo Show offers some unique advantages over its audio-only counterparts, including video conferences with people who have their own Echo Show or the Alexa app.
Updated versions of the Show 5 and the mid-size Show 8, plus a kid-specific Echo Show 5, arrive in early June. But if you're a visual person, Amazon's Echo Show lineup adds an interactive touch screen to display photos, song details, or video calls.Īmazon has an Echo Show for every occasion, from the 10-inch version with a camera that can follow you around the room to the diminutive Echo Show 5. Most top-rated smart speakers can set timers, control smart home devices, and play music, among other things.