Now Amazon's Echo as over 1400 commands

The Amazon Echo is much more than a speaker. It has a personal assistant inside named Alexa that's similar to Siri but much more versatile. Alexa can read you the news or a book, tell you the weather and search Wikipedia for random facts, or tell you a joke. But that's just scratching the surface. She can do everything from control your lights and add items to your shopping list to order a pizza and tune your guitar.
Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask.

Echo has seven microphones and beam forming technology so it can hear you from across the room—even while music is playing. Echo is also an expertly tuned speaker that can fill any room with 360° immersive sound. When you want to use Echo, just say the wake word "Alexa" and Echo responds instantly. If you have more than one Echo or Echo Dot, you can set a different wake word for each—you can pick "Amazon", "Alexa" or "Echo" as the wake word.

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."
• 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 timer: "Alexa, set a timer for 15 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?"