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How to Make Voice & Video Calls Using Echo Alexa?

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The smart speaker echo and the app ‘Alexa’ it runs on need no introduction. Gone are the days when people used their smartphones to make voice or video calls to their peers, but nowadays the Echo is capable enough to replace the smartphones. It has become a left hands task to make calls via Echo Alexa. If you are not aware of it until now or hearing about this feature for the first time, then you need to connect with Echo customer service to get further information about making calls.

Through Alexa- powered devices, be it any, Echo, show, dot or other, making calls are fun and easy to do. Just the basic requirement for calling is that you and the person, whom you are making calls to, must have a both, an Echo device and latest version of Alexa app installed on it. Moreover, the best part is you can make calls to the people in your contact list, even if they don’t have an Echo device and also to those who are not your known connections.

How to Make a Voice Call?

  • Firstly give Alexa access to your contacts.
  • Open your Alexa app on your iPhone or Android phone, tap the Calling & messaging tab
  • The app will ask permission to access your contacts and register your phone number
  • Once done, try making a call by asking Alexa to call someone

There is no need to panic if the person you are trying to call does not have an Echo device as Alex will call the Alexa app on their phone. You can also call the number by speaking it like, ‘Alexa call 2-4-5-6-1-4-6-7-6’. Making and ending calls with voice commands has never been so easier ever before. But Echo Alexa has revolutionalized every communication process, from messaging to calling.
 

How to Make a Video Call?

Just like voice calls, you can make the video calls via Echo devices. Alexa video calls can be made from Echo Show or Echo Spot to the Alexa app and vice versa. Just follow the instructions on the app and tap ‘Video Call’.

Intra-house Connection & Receiving Calls through Echo Alexa

Not only can the calls to far away devices, but also you can place calls between the echo devices in your home as they will work like a home intercom system. Look in the app under the settings to see the name of your Echo devices and then ask Alexa to call the name of your respective Echo device.

Just like asking Alexa to make calls is simple, so is receiving them. You will automatically know when a call is coming in because your echo will start ringing. To answer a call, command Alexa to ‘Answer’.

What else do you want? When there is a 24-hour human-like assistant to take your commands. In case, you find any difficulty in making or answering calls, then try to dial Alexa support number that stays active online during all hours of the day.