Set it up

Be sure you have the username and password for your Amazon account.

To start set up, attach speaker to phone and follow the onscreen instructions.

Get the Moto Alexa app

If you didn’t install the Moto Alexa app during setup:

  1. Attach speaker to phone.
  2. Touch Settings > Moto Mods > About this Moto Mod.
  3. Touch Available downloads, then select Moto Alexa.

Set speech language

From the Moto Alexa app, touch > Language to select the language you want to use when communicating with Alexa.

Train your voice

You can configure the speaker to listen to anyone’s voice or train it to recognize only your voice.

If you want to use voice commands on your phone when your speaker is not attached, you need to train Alexa to recognize your voice.

To train Alexa to recognize your voice:

  1. From the Moto Alexa app, touch > Train voice.
  2. Follow onscreen instructions.

The speaker can be trained for only one voice. To delete the existing voice training, or retrain your voice, touch Retrain voice.

Enable and disable Alexa voice activation

To temporarily turn off voice activation, touch in the Moto Alexa app. When this is disabled, the light ring on the speaker and the icon turn red to indicate that Alexa cannot listen or respond to voice commands.

To turn it off permanently, touch and turn Voice Activation off .

Touch when you want to talk to Alexa when voice activation is diabled.

Touch to enable voice activation.

Enable Alexa voice activation when display is locked

To enable Alexa to respond to voice commands when your phone is locked, touch > Show on lock screen.

Sign out or switch Amazon account

To sign out of your Amazon account, or switch which Amazon account is used with your speaker, from Moto Alexa app, touch > Sign out.