Amazon Alexa Wake Word

Alexa app on iOS in 2018, displaying its -Settings-Change Your Wake Word- screen, showing the -Wake Name Choices- menu, with the -Amazon- choice highlighted.

You want to know how to change Amazon Alexa wake word? You can indeed change this word that these speakers respond to when you say it. Current Alexa wake word options are, “Alexa…,” “Amazon…,” “Computer…,” “Echo…,” and “Ziggy…” The Amazon Alexa wake up word is the name you say to wake up the smart speaker and to start it listening for a follow-up command / question. It’s how you “get her attention”. This setting is not customizable beyond these five choices as of now.

You might wish to change this word for a particular Alexa device if you have more than one in the same home. This way, they don’t all respond at once when you call her. I.e. This wake word is speaker-specific. So if you have multiple speakers near each other, you could give each one a different trigger word.

Following are instructions on how to set this watch word for one Amazon Alexa device connected to your Amazon account.

How to Change Amazon Alexa Wake Word Procedure

1. Locate the Alexa app on your Mobile Device

First, we find ours on the third page of the home screen on our iOS based iPad tablet, as shown next.

iOS Home screen with Alexa App highlighted.

2. Then, Run the Alexa App

You should then get the Alexa app Home screen, similar to the picture displayed next.

Alexa app on iOS, displaying the Home screen, with the Settings option highlighted.

3. Tap the Settings Option

Settings is highlighted by the pink arrow in the previous picture.

This then brings up the Settings screen, as shown next.

The -Settings- screen, with the Living Room speaker highlighted.

4. Tap the Echo Speaker Device Listed to Continue with How to Change Amazon Alexa Wake Word

Then, tap the speaker whose wake word you wish to change. We’re going to update the Living Room speaker here. So, when we tapped that device on the screen above, we got the following screen back.

The -Device Settings- screen for our -Living Room- speaker. Showing the -Set Wake Word- option highlighted.

5. Tap the Wake Word Link Item

The Wake Word link is pointed at by the pink arrow in the last picture.

You should then see the Change your Wake Word screen, like the following.

The -Change Your Wake Word- screen. Showing the Choices pull down menu highlighted.

6. Tap the Wake Word Choices Pull Down Menu Item

We point at this with the pink arrow in the last picture.

Next, that menu then expands, and appears as follows.

The -Change Your Wake Word- screen. Showing the Choices menu expanded.

7. Tap the Wake Word Choice You Wish to Continue with How to Change Amazon Alexa Wake Word

In our case, we’re changing our living room speaker to Computer. So, we tap the Computer item on that menu.

Then, this returns us to the Change Your Wake Word screen as follows. But now, the value in the Wake Word Choices pull down combo box is Computer, as shown.

The -Change Your Wake Word- screen. Showing the -Computer- option selected, and the -Save- button highlighted.