This article will teach you how to use an Amazon Echo Dot without Alexa. It will also look at its limitations and what you can and can't do without Alexa.

Yes, it is possible to use your Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot speaker without enabling Alexa. But doing so turns the Echo speaker into, well, a speaker. Without any smart functionality and the ability to talk to it, it’s a fairly rudimentary speaker, which means it might not be very useful.

It’s easy to disable Alexa from listening and responding to your commands, though it does limit what you can do with your Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot. Here’s how to do it.

On your Echo Dot speaker, find the microphone button on the top of the device. The button looks like a microphone with a strikethrough or a circle with a strikethrough.