Are people still buying in these smart speakers? Everybody I knew turned them into paperweights, or send them to the drawer after a few months after the novelty wore off.
Routines in the Alexa app are also quite useful together with Alexa switches if you want to put plant lights on a cheap and convenient timer.
"Alexa tell me why my friend is full of..."
"Did this answer your question?"
"Yes, thankyou Alexa!"
When I was a kid my Mom would have us grab the "Big" dictionary and look things up, most likely it gave her a few moments of peace and quiet while we eagrly ran to her bedroom to carry "Grampa Dict" or "Great Grampa Dict"(The really big one!) back to the living room and look up whatever we were arguing about.