Welcome to the Alexa smart room at iNi ViE Hospitality. Ask Alexa for music, alarms, timers, weather and quick answers during your stay. This page gathers the Alexa commands for hotel guests in one place, grouped by topic.
Staying in a smart villa at iNi ViE Hospitality? The same voice requests apply wherever an Alexa device is installed. Availability depends on the property and room type.
Most Used Alexa Commands
Start with these everyday requests. Each one begins with the wake word.
| Request | Phrase |
|---|---|
| Change volume | “Alexa, set volume to 5.” |
| Stop | “Alexa, stop.” |
| Play music | “Alexa, play some music.” |
| Set an alarm | “Alexa, set an alarm for 7 a.m.” |
| Set a timer | “Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes.” |
| Ask the time | “Alexa, what time is it?” |
| Check the weather | “Alexa, what’s the weather like?” |
How Do I Wake Alexa?
Say “Alexa” to start any request. Amazon’s connected speakers share the same default wake word.
Complete List of Alexa Commands
The list of Alexa commands is long and grows with every new service or device it supports. Alexa is not perfect, but it understands natural language well, so you do not have to say each command exactly as written. Many commands work when worded several ways or with words left out. Below are the native Alexa commands, grouped by topic.
Some media services such as Spotify, Audible, Kindle, Pandora or Prime Music may require a personal guest account and are not guaranteed on every device.
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 a song based on context: “Alexa, play the latest Avett Brothers album” or “Alexa, play that song that goes ‘Gotta gotta be down, because I want it all.’”
- Play Spotify music: “Alexa, play 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.”
- Start Amazon Music Unlimited trial: “Alexa, start my free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited.”
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?”
News and Weather
- Check headlines: “Alexa, what’s in the news?”
- Check weather: “Alexa, what’s the weather like?” or “Alexa, will it rain today?” or even “Alexa, will I need an umbrella 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?”
Entertainment and Food
- Find movies in nearby theaters: “Alexa, what movies are playing in [city]?” or “Alexa, what action movies are playing tonight in [city]?”
- Get information on movies playing: “Alexa, tell me about the movie [title].”
- Discover nearby restaurants: “Alexa, find me a pizza restaurant in [city].”
- Get operating hours or a phone number for local businesses: “Alexa, find the address for [business name] in [city]” or “Alexa, find business hours for [business name] in [city].”
- 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: “Alexa, who sings the song [title]?”
- Get the names of band members: “Who is in the band [name]?”
- Get album information: “Alexa, 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]?”
- 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?”
- Get Fantasy Football update with the Yahoo Fantasy Football skill: “Alexa, ask Yahoo Fantasy Football for a score update” or “Alexa, ask Yahoo Fantasy Football if Colin Kaepernick is playing this week.”
Search
- Get Wikipedia information: “Alexa, Wikipedia: [subject].”
- Tell Alexa to continue reading a Wikipedia entry: “Alexa, tell me more.”
- Ask a general question: “Alexa, how tall is [person or object’s name]?”
- Ask a statistics question: “Alexa, how many people live in America?”
- Get a “Game of Thrones” quote: “Alexa, give me a ‘Game of Thrones’ quote.”
Easter Eggs
- “Alexa, good morning.”
- “Alexa, tell me a joke.”
- “Alexa, tell me a fact.”
- “Alexa, beam me up.”
- “Alexa, set phasers to kill.”
- “Alexa. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”
- “Alexa, my name is Inigo Montoya.”
- “Alexa, I want the truth.”
- “Alexa, party on, Wayne.”
- “Alexa, show me the money.”
- “Alexa, what’s the first (or second) rule of Fight Club?”
- “Alexa, surely you can’t be serious.”
- “Alexa, are you SkyNet?”
- “Alexa, party time!”
- “Alexa, open the pod bay doors.”
- “Alexa, when am I going to die?”
- “Alexa, what is your quest?”
- “Alexa, nice to see you, to see you…”
- “Alexa, don’t mention the war.”
- “Alexa, this is a dead parrot.”
- “Alexa, what is your cunning plan?”
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