Alexa Can Now Wake You Up With Favorite Tunes

One way to first your twenty-four hour period on a positive note is to set your alarm clock to the sound of your favorite song or genre of music. Now there's an easy way to practise this with Amazon'south Alexa.

Amazon on Monday expanded the virtual assistant'due south alarm clock capabilities to include music alarms. Just ask Alexa to wake yous up at a certain time to a song or radio station of your selection, and you'll be grooving into your twenty-four hour period.

This new characteristic works with a number of music streaming services, including Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, TuneIn, SiriusXM, and iHeartRadio. You can apply artist names, songs, playlists, genres, or even lyrics to a song when making your request.

You can, for case, say something full general similar "Alexa, wake me upwardly at 6 am every day to music," or exist super specific about what you want to hear with requests similar: "Alexa, wake me upward to Beyoncé radio on Pandora at 7 am,""Alexa, set an alarm for vii am using BBC news on TuneIn," or "Alexa, wake me upwardly to Location by Khalid at 6 am," Amazon said.

If yous want to wake up in the holiday spirit, say "Alexa, wake me upwardly to Christmas music at 7 am," or if you lot want motivation to hit the gym or pavement, say "Alexa, wake me up to pop music for running at v am."

"Music alarms is a top requested customer feature and we're pleased to deliver this feature to customers starting today," Amazon told PCMag in an email.

Well-nigh Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart dwelling house devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.