Amazon Introduces Voice-Recognition Service
From: Product Design & Development - 11/06/2014

Amazon is introducing a voice-recognition service called Amazon Echo that
comes with a speaker-like wireless device just in time for the holiday
shopping season.

Responding to voice commands after the "wake word" Alexa, the device offers
updates on news and weather and provides hands-free voice control for Amazon
services such as Prime Music. It has an accompanying app for tablets and
smartphones.

It can also answer common questions like how to spell words, give weather
reports, set alarms and timers and grab information from Wikipedia.

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Links:
Amazon Echo
http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo

Amazon Echo is a voice-controlled smart speaker 
http://www.cnet.com/products/amazon-echo/