Listening to NPR with Alexa Below are all of the NPR-friendly commands available for Alexa. Keep this near your device for easy reference. GENERAL COMMANDS NEWS FROM NPR FOR ALEXA DEVICES WITH A SCREEN “Alexa, play NPR.” “Alexa, play the news Say, “Alexa, play the news Stream your local NPR from NPR.” from NPR” to receive our Member station – live. Hear your personalized visual newscast. Hosted mix of national and local by the same voices you “Alexa, ask NPR to stories, powered by know and love from our change my station.” NPR One. daily audio newscast, the Change the station that NPR visual newscast is While listening to the plays when you say, updated hourly every news, you can say: “Play NPR.” weekday morning with the latest headlines and “Alexa, skip.” “Alexa, play [any footage for a quick look Skip the current story and Member station’s at what’s going on in the move on to the next one. news, now. call letters].” Stream live from any “Alexa, ask NPR to public radio station by [fast–forward or rewind]” saying the station name Rewind or fast-forward or call letters, e.g., “Alexa, by seconds or minutes – play WAMU,” or, “Alexa, however long you prefer. play Nashville Public “Alexa, ask NPR Member station in the what’s playing.” country, check out Get details about your npr.org/stations. current story. “ Alexa, play [podcast name] podcast.” Play the latest episode Be sure to say “podcast” after the show name..