--- description: Amazon's Alexa will now be able to engage with even more 'Star Wars' requests to celebrate May the Fourth this month. title: Now Your Alexa Will Respond to More Star Wars Commands image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Now Your Alexa Will Respond to Even More _Star Wars_ Commands for May the Fourth  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 2, 2018 7:30 PM CUT  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 2, 2018 7:30 PM CUT Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant for Echo is getting in on [_Star Wars_ spirit](http://time.com/5247523/star-wars-top-han-solo-moments/ "undefined") for May 4 — better known, perhaps [as May the Fourth](http://time.com/4745528/may-the-fourth-star-wars-original-script/ "undefined") — to honor the iconic extragalactic franchise. According [to the Daily Dot](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/alexa-star-wars-day/ "undefined"), the Alexa team has boosted the queries that the smart home organizer will respond to, so that fans of [Han Solo](http://time.com/5138174/harrison-ford-alden-ehrenreich-han-solo-advice/ "undefined"), Luke Skywalker and the rest of the renegade gang will be able to have ever more natural conversations with the artificial intelligence about the relative value of a [parsec](http://time.com/4499557/black-hole-burp/ "undefined"). Two of the new questions added to its database: Alexa will be able to tell a _Star Wars_ joke on command, and to provide an answer about its favorite character from the universe. (Princess-turned-General [Leia Organa](http://time.com/5065392/star-wars-the-last-jedi-carrie-fisher/ "undefined") is the obvious answer here, but you’ll have to test that out on Alexa herself.) This comes in addition to a number of pre-existing _Star Wars_ trivia already functioning embedded in the tech, from asking for a _Star Wars_ limerick to getting Alexa to speak like Yoda instead of its soothing regular voice. (Well, maybe Yoda is soothing in its own way.) May the force of voice-powered artificial intelligence be with you in this brave new world of pop-culture-literate smart home technology. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5262968/alex-star-wars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5262968/alex-star-wars/"},"headline":"Now Your Alexa Will Respond to Even More Star Wars Commands for May the Fourth","datePublished":"2018-05-02T19:30:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:34.983Z","description":"\"Alexa, tell me a 'Star Wars' joke.\"","url":"https://time.com/5262968/alex-star-wars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Technology","Star Wars topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5262968/alex-star-wars/","name":"Now Your Alexa Will Respond to Even More Star Wars Commands for May the Fourth"}}]}] ```