Hi
An Echo Dot is a device that looks like a hockey puck, and is sold by Amazon.
It connects to your wireless network, and is speech activated.
It is kind of like Cortana without a computer but it actually can do a lot more stuff than Cortana can it can play any music that you can think of.
I can ask it to play All Around My Hat by Steeleye Span and because I have Amazon Prime it will find it and play it for me.
You can ask for the weather forecast set alarms or timers ask it to remember things for you pretty much anything you can think of.
We have 2 of them one is upstairs in the bedroom, the other one is in the kitchen, the one in the kitchen we use as a cooking timer as well as playing background music asking the weather etcetera.
The one that's in the the bedroom I can ask it to play thunderstorm sounds at night when I'm going to go to sleep and it plays the sound of rain falling with thunder off in the distance which is very relaxing.
You can play many other sounds and of course any music that I want to listen to when I'm reading or just relaxing.
They only cost $50 so they are selling millions of them and they keep adding capabilities.
It can also control your thermostat, lights in your house, open your garage door about anything that you can buy an accessory for that can be operated by Bluetooth.
We have both of ours connected to Bluetooth speakers so that the music sound is of a higher quality.
Amazon Echo Dot - Add Alexa to any room Check it out, they now have an app that lets it be used as a phone, you can call and receive telephone calls on it hands-free.
I haven't really looked into it to find out how that all works yet.
By the way I'm dictating all of this to my Samsung tablet and it's going pretty smoothly.
I've had to go back and make a few corrections but basically it gets everything I say.
That's it for now.
Mike