Use Soothing Alexa Sleep Sounds
Different sleep sounds come from various Alexa skills. For example, the Sleep Sounds skill allows you to choose between a wide variety of sounds, including ocean waves, fireplace, rainforest, crickets, frogs, wind, rain, dishwasher, and waterfall. Zen Sounds includes options for thunder, Japanese garden, beach, desert, wolf, or sailing sounds. Whether you love the sound of rain, wind, thunder, the ocean, or ambient music, you can tell Alexa to play it for you. Other possibilities include a guided meditation, a bedtime story, or white noise. Several Alexa skills, such as Short Bedtime Story, will play you (or your kids) a story. Some, such as Mindful Meditation, will lead you through your choice of guided meditations. Still others, like Sleep Sounds: White Noise, offer, you guessed it, white noise. If bedtime music is more your thing, there are many skills for that, too.
How to Play Ambient Sleep Sounds
To use any of the skills mentioned above, you must first enable them:
Activate Your Alexa’s Skill
Once you’ve enabled some Alexa sleep sounds skills, you’re ready to activate them at bedtime:
Alexa Routines
You: Alexa, play Sleep Sounds. Alexa: Welcome to Sleep Sounds by Invoked Apps. I can play many relaxing sound loops like Thunderstorms and Rain. Or you can ask me for a list. You can also tell me two sounds to play at the same time. Which sound would you like? You: Ocean Waves. Alexa: [Ocean Waves sound]
Using the Alexa Sleep Timer
Once you have your sleep sounds going, you can tell Alexa to stop them after a certain period of time. This is called a sleep timer.
