Amazon Echo Hands-Free Speaker with Built-In Voice Control

Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It's hands-free and always on. With seven microphones and beam-forming technology, Echo can hear you from across the room—even while music is playing. Echo is also an expertly tuned speaker that can fill any room with immersive sound. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask. Echo begins working as soon as it detects the wake word.

You can pick Alexa or Amazon as your wake word. 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. Echo provides hands-free voice control for Amazon Music, Prime Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream other popular music services like Spotify and iTunes from your phone or tablet. Use Echo to switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or space heater while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—all without lifting a finger.

.. or even raising your voice. Echo doesn't stop working when you're away from home. With the free companion app on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers, you can easily manage your alarms, music, shopping lists, and more. * Connect to your home network with a simple setup, guided by the free companion app on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers. * Play audiobooks from Audible with Echo. Plus, Echo supports Whispersync for Voice to continue right where you left off.

* Check your upcoming schedule by asking what's on your Google calendar. * Restock on previously purchased items by re-ordering Prime-eligible products in your Amazon shopping history.
* Connected home: Control compatible WeMo, Philips Hue, SmartThings, Insteon, and Wink devices with your voice. * Hear commute time and the fastest route to your destination. * Ask for sports scores and schedules from the NFL, NBA, MLS, MLB, NHL, NCAA, WNBA, and more. * Listen to and discover music from Pandora's library of over 1 million tracks. * Listen to your Amazon Music Library, Prime Music, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio. * News, weather, and
information: Hear up-to-the-minute weather and news from a variety of sources, including local radio stations, NPR, and ESPN from TuneIn. * Get information from Wikipedia, definitions, answers to common questions, and more. * Stay on time and organized with voice-controlled alarms, timers, shopping lists, and to-do lists. * Echo automatically updates through the cloud with new services and features.