This description covers the launch of the Amazon Echo in 2014. The Amazon Echo is a voice-controlled device that uses the Alexa Voice Service to respond to voice commands. It is capable of playing music, providing information, controlling smart home devices, and more. The Echo was released in November 2014
Amazon Echo, often shortened to Echo, is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service, Alexa, which responds to a wake term when spoken by its user. The features of the device include voice interaction, audio program playback, such as music, streaming podcasts, and audiobooks, maintaining to-do lists, alarms, and scheduling reminders, in addition to providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices, acting as a home automation hub.