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What is Amazon Echo?
Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, make calls, send and receive messages, provide information, news, sports scores, weather and more-instantly. All you have to do is ask. Echo has seven microphones and beam forming technology so it 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 360deg. immersive sound.
• Plays all your music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Tune In and more using just your voice
• Introducing Alexa calling and messaging, a new way to be together with family and friends. Just ask Alexa to call or message anyone with an Echo, Echo Dot or the Alexa App
• Fills the room with immersive, 360deg. Omni-directional audio
• Hears you from across the room with far-field voice recognition, even while music is playing
• Answers questions, reads the news, reports traffic and weather, reads audiobooks from Audible, gives info on local businesses, provides sports scores and schedules and more using the Alexa Voice Service
• Controls lights, fans, switches, thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, locks and more with compatible connected devices from WeMo, Philips Hue, Samsung SmartThings, Nest, Eco bee and others
• Always getting smarter and adding new features, plus thousands of skills like Uber, Domino's, DISH and more
When you want to use Echo, just say the wake word "Alexa" and Echo responds instantly. If you have more than one Echo or Echo Dot, Alexa responds intelligently from the Echo you're closest to with ESP (Echo Spatial Perception).
Voice Control Your Music
Amazon Echo provides hands-free voice control for Amazon Music-just ask for your favorite artist or song or request a specific genre or mood. You can also search for music by lyrics, when a song or album was released or let Alexa pick the music for you. Listen to any song with Amazon Music Unlimited. Amazon Echo also provides hands-free voice control to Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio and Tune In. Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream other popular music services like iTunes from your phone or tablet. Echo has been fine-tuned to deliver crisp vocals with dynamic bass response. Its dual downward-firing speakers produce 360deg. Omni-directional audio to fill any room with immersive sound.
Alexa answer the Call
Introducing Alexa calling and messaging-a new way to be together with family and friends. When you're busy making dinner, just ask Alexa to place a call to Mom or send a quick voice message to a friend. With Alexa, you can talk to anyone who has an Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show or the Alexa App. You can also enable a new feature called Drop In for the special cases when you want to connect instantly with your closest family and friends or other Echo devices in your home.
With the Alexa App, conversations and contacts go where you go. When you're away from home, use the app to make a quick call or send a message to your family's Echo. Alexa calling and messaging is free-to get started download the Alexa App.
Far-Field Voice Recognition
Tucked under the light ring is an array of seven microphones that use beam-forming technology and enhanced noise cancellation. With far-field voice recognition, Echo can hear you ask a question from any direction-even while playing music. When you want to use Echo, simply say the wake word, "Alexa," and Echo lights up and streams audio to the cloud, where the Alexa Voice Service is leveraged to recognize and respond to your request instantly.
Always Getting Smarter
Alexa-the brain behind Echo-is built in the cloud, so it is always getting smarter. The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary and personal preferences. And because Echo is always connected, updates are delivered automatically. Just in the last few months we've added Alexa calling and messaging, exclusive voice-shopping deals and thousands of new skills from third-party developers.
Echo has Skills
Skills add even more capabilities like ordering a pizza from Domino's, requesting a ride from Uber, tracking your fitness with Fitbit, controlling your TV with DISH Hopper and more. Enabling skills lets your Echo do even more-simply discover and enable the skills you want to use in the Alexa App. New skills are being added all the time. You can also see ratings and reviews to learn what other customers are saying about the thousands of skills available in the Alexa App.
Control Your Smart Home
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. Echo works with devices such as lights, switches, thermostats and more from WeMo, Philips Hue, SmartThings, Insteon, Nest, Eco bee and Wink.
Do More with the Alexa App
With the free Alexa App on Fire OS, Android, iOS and desktop browsers, you can easily setup and manage your Echo. Use the Alexa App to connect music services you already use like Spotify and Pandora. Link your calendar from Google, G Suite, iCloud, Outlook.com or Office365. Setup your smart home devices from Philips Hue, TP-Link, Eco bee, WeMo, SmartThings, Insteon, Wink, Nest, Lutron and more. Make calls, view your conversation history, manage contacts and get notifications when you receive a message (calling and messaging features available on iOS and Android only).
See which books are available to read from your Kindle and Audible libraries. View shopping and to-do lists while on the go. Control your timers and set custom tones for your alarms and much more. The Alexa App is also where you discover third-party skills.