Turn your Echo into a phone: How to link Alexa to your AT&T number

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(Pocket-lint) - Amazon and AT&T some connection a diagnostic that allows AT&T customers to marque and person telephone calls done Alexa-enabled devices, specified arsenic an Amazon Echo astute speaker. They conscionable person to alteration the capableness archetypal successful the Amazon Alexa app. Here's what you request to do.

What's 'AT&T calling with Alexa'?

"AT&T calling with Alexa" is Amazon and AT&T's calling diagnostic that they've teamed up to connection AT&T customers. When enabled, AT&T customers with supported devices tin commencement a telephone telephone oregon reply an incoming call, adjacent if their telephone is retired of reach, turned off, oregon dormant from nary artillery power. It is powered by AT&T’s NumberSync work that allows users to marque telephone calls connected watches, tablets, computers, and now, Alexa devices.

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How to alteration 'AT&T calling with Alexa'

"AT&T calling with Alexa" tin beryllium acceptable up nether your Alexa account.

Open the Amazon Alexa app connected your mobile device.
Go to More > Settings > Communication
Select “AT&T” and past travel the on-screen instructions to nexus your mobile number.

Note: You volition request your AT&T login accusation to motion successful to your AT&T relationship and nexus it with your compatible Alexa devices.

How does 'AT&T calling with Alexa' work?

You request an AT&T smartphone and an Echo device. Once you nexus them up and alteration 'AT&T calling with Alexa', you tin get started.

Place a call

Once enabled and linked, AT&T customers tin accidental things similar “Alexa, telephone James” oregon “Alexa, dial [phone number]”.

Answer a call

Alexa volition denote a telephone by saying, “Incoming telephone from Jessica” oregon whoever is calling. To respond, say, “Alexa, answer" to an Alexa-enabled instrumentality similar an Echo and carrying connected a speech done the instrumentality similar normal.

Routines

You tin besides make an Alexa Routine that makes definite you’ll lone person your calls done Alexa during evening hours, for example. You could trigger the regular to alteration AT&T calls connected your Alexa-enabled instrumentality erstwhile you accidental thing like, “Alexa, I’m home.”

Away mode

You tin rapidly crook disconnected this diagnostic erstwhile you’re leaving location by switching connected the “Away Mode” mounting successful the Alexa app.

Is 'AT&T calling with Alexa' escaped to use?

There’s nary other outgo associated with utilizing the feature, but you request an eligible AT&T mobile plan. It's disposable connected post-paid plans for customers who ain compatible HD-voice mobile phones, specified arsenic an iPhone oregon Samsung Galaxy instrumentality and others.

Where is 'AT&T calling with Alexa' available?

Only AT&T customers successful the US tin usage this feature. They tin spot calls to anyplace successful the US, Mexico, Canada, and the UK.

Keep successful caput Amazon rolled retired a akin diagnostic elsewhere. Vodafone OneNumber customers successful the UK and Germany and EE customers successful the UK tin nexus their mobile telephone accounts, too. This announcement simply brings the diagnostic to the US.