Amazon has announced Echo, one of their most ambitious products to date. At it’s core, Echo is a wireless speaker controlled by your voice. However, a built in Siri or Google Play like voice assistant expands its capabilities to much more. After saying the “wake word”, you can issue out one of several commands. Echo can start and stop music, answer questions, set alarms, and more.
The Amazon Echo will sell for $199 but, for a limited time, Prime members can request an invitation to purchase the device for $99. Whether the device is a success or not, at the very least it’s a pretty good glimpse at the type of voice enhancements Amazon may include in the successor to the current Fire TV.
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I would be more interested if it was also portable.
If you need something like this that is portable, why not just use your smart phone? Cortana, Google Now, Siri, etc pretty much do all this already don’t they?
the part that I am interested in as being portable would be the speaker. If it sounds really nice that is… Siri does everything else…
If you just want a portable speaker, why don’t you get one of the abundantly available bluetooth rechargeable speakers that already exist? This has a totally different purpose.
Could this double (or triple) as a conference device?
Eg. Bluetooth to Phone/Computer with GoToMeeting as a speaker + microphone.
Looks like a waste of money to me…
This is the type of device that wets the NSA’s dreams…
I think it will fail. To expensive for what it does. And even if it was dirt cheap. What would be the point…
The folks that might use this are folks that do not have a smartphone…
And it’s being advertise to be for the NPR spaz’s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTkedIUX8U
nice… nice….
Can we root it? :-)
Haha! Can’t say the thought didn’t cross my mind.
and then the overclocking.