Amazon Echo
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Well designed, affordable, and powerful, Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It's hands-free and always on. With seven microphones, Echo can hear you from across the room—even while music is playing. It is more useful if you have Amazon Prime, because of the increased access to music and books. Echo has a high quality speaker that can fill a small room with good quality music. Echo begins working as soon as it detects the wake word (either Alexa or Amazon,your choice). Echo is powered by a cloud-based voice service (called Alexa) to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores, the weather, and much more. The more you use your Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. Updates are delivered automatically. With the free companion app on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers, you can easily manage your alarms, to-do lists, shopping lists, music, and more. Features include access to traffic reports, news and sports, as well as Wikipedia, Yelp, Pandora, Audible, Google Calendar, Amazon.com re-ordering, and control of smart home devices with WeMo, Philips Hue, SmartThings, Insteon, Wink and more.
$170
Teaches: a computing tool
CTR Rating: 98%