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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. Additionally, the Alexa voice service is available to be added to other devices, and Amazon encourages other companies' devices and services to connect to it. Īmazon initially limited the first-generation Echo to Amazon Prime members or just by invitation, but it became widely available in the United States in mid 2015, and subsequently in other countries. The device represented one of its first attempts to expand its device portfolio beyond the Kindle e-reader. It can also control several smart devices, acting as a home automation hub.Īmazon started developing Echo devices inside its Lab126 offices in Silicon Valley and in Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 2010. The features of the device include voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, and playing audiobooks, in addition to providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. Users may change this wake word to "Amazon", "Echo", " Computer", as well as some other options. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which will respond when a user says "Alexa". Amazon EchoĪmazon Echo, often shortened to Echo, is an American brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. This article is about the American brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon.
