You don’t have to do anything special to set them up, although as it learns your voice it’ll get better at responding to your voice commands. Once your Echo Dot is set up, the voice commands are automatic. How to set up voice commands on an Echo Dot? How do you set up an Echo Dot as a Bluetooth speaker?Īs soon as your Echo Dot is fully set up, it’s automatically a Bluetooth speaker, so you can connect your phone or tablet to it and anything you’re playing from that device will play on the Echo Dot! No special set up required.
If you have trouble setting it up, Amazon has terrific customer support that can help troubleshoot.
Once you get your Echo Dot, download the Alexa app to your phone and then follow these directions to set it up. The good news is that Amazon has made it really easy to get it set up. Much younger than that and they’ll probably mostly be frustrated by the voice commands. The good news is they ship free and have free returns, so if you try it out and decide it’s not for you, it’s simple to return it. They also have the Echo Dot Kids which is $24.99 (normally $59.99) and includes a year of the Amazon Kids subscription. Usually the Echo Dot is $49.99 but during Prime Week, they’re on sale for $19.99 so this is the best time to grab one if you’re in the market (I bought ours at this same price a few years ago).
How to Listen to Audiobooks on an Echo Dot Here’s what you need to know about listening to audiobooks on Echo Dot: It’s been a great fit for our family, but if it’s not for you, there are lots of great other options to listen to audiobooks like the Yoto Player or an old-school CD player. If you’re not familiar with the Echo Dot, it’s a smart speaker from Amazon that lets you listen to music, audiobooks, and ask questions.īecause it’s a smart speaker and internet enabled, some families feel uncomfortable with having an Echo Dot or other Alexa Echo device in their home or having their kids use it. My three older girls use the Echo Dots in their rooms to listen to audiobooks almost daily for the past two years and we’ve loved them. I’ve written a LOT of posts about audiobooks over the years, but somehow I’ve never written a post about how to listen to audiobooks on an Echo Dot.
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