Amazon Alexa gets multi-room update

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Amazon introduces ‘multi-room music’ to Alexa, which lets users synchronise tunes across multiple Echo speakers by voice command

Owners of two or more Amazon Echo or Echo Dot speakers can use the Alexa App to create (and name) groups, enabling music playback control across the devices with a simple command.

For example, an Echo and a Dot could be grouped together as 'bedroom'. First person to ask Alexa to play Herman's Hermits' Upstairs, Downstairs while upstairs, wins!

That's yet another IQ increase for Alexa, then...

Becky Roberts
Becky Roberts
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Becky is a hi-fi, AV and technology journalist, formerly the Managing Editor at What Hi-Fi? and Editor of Australian Hi-Fi and Audio Esoterica magazines. With over twelve years of journalism experience in the hi-fi industry, she has reviewed all manner of audio gear, from budget amplifiers to high-end speakers, and particularly specialises in headphones and head-fi devices.

In her spare time, Becky can often be found running, watching Liverpool FC and horror movies, and hunting for gluten-free cake.