--- title: May the Fourth: Alexa Responds to Star Wars Commands description: Amazon's Alexa will now be able to engage with even more 'Star Wars' requests to celebrate May the Fourth this month. canonical: https://time.com/5262968/alex-star-wars/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-02T19:30:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:32.994Z og:title: Now Your Alexa Will Respond to More Star Wars Commands og:description: "Alexa, tell me a 'Star Wars' joke." og:url: https://time.com/5262968/alex-star-wars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Now Your Alexa Will Respond to More Star Wars Commands twitter:description: "Alexa, tell me a 'Star Wars' joke." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Now Your Alexa Will Respond to Even More _Star Wars_ Commands for May the Fourth > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 2, 2018 7:30 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 2, 2018 7:30 PM UTC Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant for Echo is getting in on [_Star Wars_ spirit](http://time.com/5247523/star-wars-top-han-solo-moments/) for May 4 — better known, perhaps [as May the Fourth](http://time.com/4745528/may-the-fourth-star-wars-original-script/) — to honor the iconic extragalactic franchise. According [to the Daily Dot](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/alexa-star-wars-day/), 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/), 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/). 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/) 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.) 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