Archive · 20 Jun 2025
Enhance Your Echo Speaker: New Alexa Update & Tips
Amazon is updating Alexa, its voice assistant, with a new version called Alexa Plus.
This new version is being released to users over time, so not everyone has it yet.
While you wait, you can still make your Echo speaker smarter!
You can add BBC Sounds to listen to radio and podcasts, control your TV with voice commands, and get a quick news update every morning.
These tricks help you use your Echo more while you wait for the new, improved Alexa Plus!
Amazon's Alexa Plus upgrade is being rolled out to Echo users.
Over a million users have access to Alexa Plus as of late March 2025.
The rollout will continue to be
Users can integrate BBC Sounds for podcasts and radio content.
Echo speakers can control smart TVs with voice commands.
Custom Flash Briefings offer personalized news updates.
- Who
- Amazon Echo users.
- What
- New ways to use and enhance Amazon Echo speakers.
- When
- Alexa Plus is being rolled out gradually since late March 2025.
- Where
- On Amazon Echo speakers and smart displays.
- Why
- To improve the user experience of Amazon Echo devices.
- Product
- Amazon Echo Speakers
- Update
- Alexa Plus
- Rollout Start
- Late March 2025
- Users w/ Access
- Over one million
- Feature 1
- BBC Sounds integration
- Feature 2
- Smart TV control
- Feature 3
- Custom Flash Briefings