Amazon Echo – Black

Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It is hands-free and all the time on. With seven microphones and beam-forming technology, Echo can hear you from across the room—even even as music is playing. Echo may be an expertly tuned speaker that may fill any room with immersive sound.

Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to offer information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—right away. All it’s a must to do is ask. Echo begins working as soon as it detects the wake word. You’ll be able to pick Alexa or Amazon as your wake word.

Far-field voice recognition

Always be heard

Tucked under the light ring on Echo is an array of seven microphones. These sensors use beam-forming technology to hear you from any direction. With enhanced noise cancellation, Echo can hear you ask a question even even as It is playing music.

…just ask

Echo uses on-device keyword spotting to detect the wake word. When Echo detects the wake word, it lights up and streams audio to the cloud, where we leverage the Alexa Voice Service to recognize and respond for your request.

Always getting smarter

Ever-evolving

Alexa—the brain at the back of Echo—is built in the cloud, so it’s all the time getting smarter. The more you use Echo, the more it adapts for your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. And because Echo is all the time connected, updates are delivered mechanically.

…and adding new skills

We are all the time adding new capabilities to Echo. Recently, we’ve got added streaming music from Pandora, audiobooks from Audible, Google Calendar get entry to, live sports scores and schedules, traffic reports, Amazon.com re-ordering, Regulate of connected devices with WeMo and Philips Hue, and more.

Advanced audio design

360° immersive sound

Echo has been fine-tuned to deliver crisp vocals with dynamic bass response. Its dual downward-firing speakers produce 360° omni-directional audio to fill the room with immersive sound.

…for your entire music

Echo provides hands-free voice Regulate for Amazon Music, Prime Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so You’ll be able to stream other popular music services and products like Spotify and iTunes from your phone or tablet.

Connected Home

Don’t lift a finger

Use Echo to switch at the lamp before getting off the bed, turn at the fan or space heater even as reading on your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—all without lifting a finger…or even raising your voice.

…to Regulate your home

Echo works with devices such as lights and switches from Belkin WeMo, Philips Hue, and Wink. Starter kits are to be had for simple setup.

Amazon Echo App

Echo doesn’t stop working if you find yourself away from home. With the free companion app on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers, You’ll be able to easily manage your alarms, music, shopping lists, and more.

Key Features

Easy setup

Connect to your own home network with a simple setup, guided by the free companion app on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers.

Just ask

Echo is all the time in a position, connected, and fast. Just say the wake word, “Alexa,” for:

NEW—Audible: Play audiobooks from Audible with Echo. Plus, Echo supports Whispersync for Voice to continue right where you left off.

NEW—Calendars: Check your upcoming schedule by asking what’s in your Google calendar.

NEW—Shopping: Restock on prior to now purchased items by re-ordering Prime-eligible products on your Amazon shopping history.

NEW—Connected home: Regulate compatible WeMo, Philips Hue, and Wink devices with your voice.

NEW—Traffic: Hear travel time and the fastest route for your destination.

NEW—Sports: Ask for sports scores and schedules from the NFL, NBA, MLS, MLB, and more.

NEW—Pandora: Listen to and discover music from Pandora’s library of over 1 million tracks.

Music: Listen for your Amazon Music Library, Prime Music, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.

News, weather, and information: Hear up to date weather and news from quite a lot of sources, including local radio stations, NPR, and ESPN from TuneIn.

Questions and answers: Get information from Wikipedia, definitions, answers to common questions, and more.

Alarms, timers, and lists: Stay on time and organized with voice-controlled alarms, timers, shopping lists, and to-do lists.

More coming soon: Echo mechanically updates through the cloud with new services and products and features.