Key Information
- Type: Bluetooth Speaker
- Color: Black
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What is Amazon ECHO?Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather and more. Prime members can also ask Alexa to order eligible products they've ordered before and many Prime products. All you have to do is ask.Echo has seven microphones and beam-forming technology so it can hear you from across the room even in noisy environments or while playing music. Echo is also an expertly tuned speaker that can fill any room with 360° immersive sound. When you want to use Echo, just say the wake word “Alexa” and Echo responds. If you have more than one Echo or Echo Dot, Alexa responds intelligently from the device you're closest to with ESP (Echo Spatial Perception).
Voice-Control – YourMusic
Amazon Echo provideshands-free voice control for Amazon Music just ask for your favourite artist orsong, or request a specific genre or mood. You can also search for music bylyrics, when a song or album was released, or let Alexa pick the music for you.Listen to 40 million songs with Amazon Music Unlimited.
Echo also provideshands-free voice control to Spotify and TuneIn. Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabledso you can stream other popular music services like iTunes from your phone ortablet. Echo has been fine-tuned to deliver crisp vocals with dynamic bass response.Its dual downward-firing speakers produce 360° omni-directional audio to fillany room with immersive sound.
Far-Field – Voice Recognition
Tucked under the light ringis an array of seven microphones that use beam-forming technology and enhancednoise cancellation. With far-field voice recognition, Amazon Echo can hear youask a question from any direction—even in noisy environments or while playingmusic.
When you want to use Echo,simply say the wake word, “Alexa”, and Echo lights up and streams audio to thecloud, where the Alexa Voice Service is leveraged to recognise and respond toyour request.
Always Getting – Smarter
Alexa—the brain behindAmazon Echo—updates through the cloud automatically and is continuallylearning, adding new functionality and skills. The more you use Echo, the moreit adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary and personal preferences.
Just in the last few monthswe’ve added Amazon order tracking, IFTTT, local search from Yelp, movieshowtimes, Google and Outlook.com calendar support, Audible audiobooks,text-to-speech for Kindle eBooks and thousands of new skills from third-partydevelopers.
ECHO Has – Skills
Skills add even morecapabilities such as ordering take away from Just Eat, requesting a ride fromUber, checking train times from National Rail and more. Enabling skills letsyour Amazon Echo do even more simply discover and enable the skills you want touse in the Alexa App.
New skills are being addedall the time. You can also see ratings and reviews to learn what othercustomers are saying about skills in the Alexa App.
Control Your – Smart Home
Use Amazon Echo to switchon the lamp before getting out of bed, turn up the thermostat while reading inyour favourite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a film allwithout lifting a finger.
Echo works with smart homedevices such as lights, switches, thermostats and more from WeMo, SamsungSmartThings, Philips Hue, Hive, Netatmo, Tado°, Tp-link, Nest and others.
Echo now supports IFTTT (IfThis, Then That), a third-party service that allows you to create rules (or“applets”) that automate how your devices, apps and websites work with eachother.
Do More With The – AlexaApp
With the free Alexa App onFire OS, Android, iOS and desktop browsers, you can easily set up and manageyour Amazon Echo.
Use the Alexa App toconnect services you already use such as Amazon Music, Spotify and GoogleCalendar. Set up your smart home devices from WeMo, Philips Hue, Hive, Netatmo,tado° and more. See which books are available to listen to from your Audible andKindle libraries. View shopping and to-do lists while on the go. Control yourtimers and set custom tones for your alarms, and much more. The Alexa App isalso where you discover and enable third-party skills.
