Amazon deserves a pat on the back for getting a speaker with a digital assistant built-in mass acceptance. The Amazon Echo was a cylindrical device launched in 2014 that featured Alexa, a voice-activated and voice-controlled virtual assistant that could do a variety of things, including ordering things from Amazon, of course. Eventually, several varieties of Echo products spawned including the Amazon Tap portable speaker, the tiny Echo Dot, and more recently the camera-packing Echo Look and screen-laden Echo Show.
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