Amazon on Thursday announced Echo, a speaker with a built-in voice-activated personal digital assistant. Think of a cylindrical Bose SoundLink Mini married to Siri, Cortana or Google Voice — or heck, living in sin with all three. Echo can conduct Web searches, add items to your to-do list, let you play streaming music, and give you news and weather reports, among other things. It’s connected to the Amazon Web Services cloud, so it can learn on the fly. In fact, it keeps learning continuously.
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Amazon's Echo Plays Hard to Get
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 7, 2014 09:22 AMAmazon on Thursday announced Echo, a speaker with a built-in voice-activated personal digital assistant. Think of a cylindrical Bose SoundLink Mini married to Siri, Cortana or Google Voice — or heck, living in sin with all three. Echo can conduct Web searches, add items to your to-do list, let you play streaming music, and give you news and weather reports, among other things. It’s connected to the Amazon Web Services cloud, so it can learn on the fly. In fact, it keeps learning continuously.