{"id":12948,"date":"2017-08-04T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=12948"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T11:54:19","slug":"amazon-echo-gets-contextual-commands-like-alexa-play-music-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/amazon-echo-gets-contextual-commands-like-alexa-play-music-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Echo gets contextual commands like &#8220;Alexa, play music for working out&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Amazon&#8217;s home speaker just got a lot better with Alexa&#8217;s ability to understand moods and context for playing music.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">Amazon have updated their popular home speakers&#8217; artificial intelligence Alexa with a whole new understanding of your music requests. From today you can ask Alexa to play you music for meditating, going out for a run, a romantic dinner, post-romantic dinner fun and much more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">According to Amazon they have added over 500 activities that you can request music for including a wide range of scenarios. Some commands Alexa has been programmed to respond to include &#8220;getting pumped&#8221;, &#8220;Hooking up&#8221;, and &#8220;baby making&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">You can also specify what sort of music you would like that will also accompany your activity. So if you&#8217;re sick of all the EDM playing for your workouts, just tell Alexa &#8220;play rock music for working out&#8221; or whatever your choice and the Echo speaker\u00a0can select contextual music based on a genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, the new features are only available as a subscriber of Amazon Music. 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