Amazon Alexa owners are just realising there’s a hidden ‘sleep mode’ that instantly helps relieve common problem
IT'S a huge pain struggling to fall asleep, or wrestling with the desire to get the full seven-to-eight hours a night when the eyes are wide open.
But like Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa has a range of ambient sounds it can deploy to help its owners drift into the land of sheep.
Amazon hasn't created the sounds itself.
Instead, Alexa can borrow them from Google by using the Skills feature.
Alexa owners can set up thousands of Skills in their smart home device, to help automate their daily lives better.
Some Skills owners have to custom create themselves.
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But Amazon knows just how annoying it can be when sleep feels hard to reach.
So, it has created a free, ready-to-use that can be installed instantly.
These sounds can even be put on a timer, to avoid your speaker eating up energy though the night.
Here are all the ambient sounds available to listen to:
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- Heartbeat
- Thunderstorms
- Rain
- Ocean Waves
- Babbling Brook
- Fireplace
- Airplane
- Fan
- Oscillating Fan
- City
- Rainforest
- Train
- Crickets
- Frogs
- Birds
- Clock and Grandfather clock
- Cat
- Vacuum
- Pink Noise
- Brown Noise
- White Noise
- Wind
- Windy Leaves
- Windy Trees
Once it's installed, Alexa owners simple need to ask their device: "Alexa, ask ambient noise for...," or "Alexa, start rain sounds."
If you're unsure which of the 24 audio subjects to choose from, just ask Alexa for an Ambient Sounds list.
Then once it's playing, say something along the lines of: "Alexa, stop in six hours."
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