Amazon Echo, voice assistant device, Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA

We go hands-on with Amazon's new Echo smart speaker and its Alexa voice assistant, who might just be Siri's better-sounding twin sister.

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We've been testing the Amazon Echo, a home Bluetooth speaker that also connects to Amazon's new digital assistant. Using voice commands, we can ask it to perform some basic tasks, like checking the news or playing streaming music. We answer the most common questions people have about the Echo, and let you know whether it's worth the investment.

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The Amazon Echo is basically Siri or Google Now in a box: an always-on, always-listening way to provide quick answers and information, to add things to your task and shopping lists. But only sometimes.

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If the Echo does one thing really well, it's play music. Find out how to do more than just play a single song.

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Turn an Echo into a Bluetooth speaker with a quick setup.

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To improve its voice recognition tech, Amazon saves and analyzes your voice data. Here are two ways to delete it.
"Amazon Echo saves all your voice data. Here's how to delete it"

Whether you like it or not, Amazon stores any voice commands you say to Echo. Here are two ways to wipe that data.

by Sharon Profis
January 22, 2015

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My little Robot

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So excited to open our new Amazon Echo and let Alexa take over the living room! Well, almost. The new Amazon Echo is a very good listener. She can answer questions like "What is the weather?" "What time is it?" "Who wrote War and Peace?" and even has some surprises in store to questions like "What do you think of Siri?" And with your Amazon Prime account you ask Siri to play music just by mentioning the artist. Of course Alexa is happy to help you with your shopping- on Amazon. Tell Alexa you would like to reorder those cookies you ordered last week and it will gladly put in the order and charge your credit card- all based on you telling it to. A little scary if kids figure this out. But the Amazon Echo does have a lot of potential.

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This video demonstrates a voice driven adventure game for Amazon Echo written using the Alexa Skills Kit.

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The Amazon Echo is finally open to the general public after it was initially released very limited to Prime members. A voice activated AI assistant and Prime Music speaker, it aims to gain adoption in countless homes of families or young singles. Will Jordan and Fitz think this sort of device will fit in the connected home?

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Bill Detwiler cracks open the Amazon Echo and explores the tech inside this cloud-connected, "smart" speaker.

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A cool example of what can be done by using Amazon Echo to communicate with Eva to search for travel products on the Concur platform.

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Amazon Echo is a device that is voice controlled and by default responds when you address "Alexa". One of Echo's features is to turn things on and off. Using a Raspberry Pi running a Hue emulator, Echo 'thinks' it's turning lights on and off but is really in effect controlling a wheelchair. The control scheme is direction(forward, reverse, left, or right) followed by duration in seconds (one, two, three, or four).

more info at:
"Amazon Echo Controlled Wheelchair"

July 17, 2015

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Vivint puts its Ping camera on display at CES 2016 -- and incorporates Amazon Echo tech into its broader security system.

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Amazon's Echo keeps getting smarter and smarter: Alexa is able to order you a pizza, play music from Spotify and now it can order you an Uber.

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