Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot are pretty cool, but what if you don’t have one yet\u2014or aren’t home to use yours? That’s where Astra comes in. It’s an iPhone app that links to your Amazon account so you talk talk to Alexa just as if you’re right in front of your own Echo. The app lets you do pretty much everything your Echo or Echo Dot can handle, except for music playback or reading audio books. You can also remotely control your Echo-aware smarthome devices with your voice, which is worth the app’s US$0.99 price tag all by itself. You can get Astra at Apple’s App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[98,43,602],"class_list":["post-7955","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-iphone","tag-smarthome"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n