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Abstract: The perky voice of Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa can now be heard across millions of homes. The company’s Echo smart speaker range and other Alexa devices have expanded rapidly in just a few years, spawning countless fans. While Alexa is useful alone if you need urgent questions answered or want to place an Amazon order there’s a whole world of opportunities if you pair it with a compatible device or two. We have rounded up the best Alexa-compatible devices on the market, including add-on products and those that come with the digital assistant built-in. The Alexa “skill” takes over handling of the command; normally it results in a response being sent back to the Alexa device, causing it to say something to the user in response. In the case of Alexa IoT, the command gets routed to a “device shadow” on Amazon’s cloud, which in the end results in a response being sent to some other device in your home. We are bypassing all that with our hack. We want to make the Alexa device talk directly to our ESP8266 chip, inside of our home, without sending anything out to the cloud and back. We want the Alexa to directly send a request to our ESP8266, over and inside of our home Wi-Fi network only. Ere we will Amazon’s digital assistant install in the wi-fi module and esp8266 will be attached with a mike which takes all the voice commands through which it will automatically control the home alliances. As the user give the voice command to the mike according to that the home appliances can be switched ON/OFF accordingly.