Amazon Echo Now Available to All Customers
Echo is a new category of device designed around your voice-it's always on, hands-free, and fast-just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more from across the room and get answers instantly
Previously available by invitation only, all customers can now order Echo and it will start shipping July 14
Since November, Alexa-the brain behind Echo-has added support for Pandora, Audible, home automation with WeMo and Philips Hue, sports scores and schedules, traffic, and more
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2015-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)-Seven months ago, Amazon introduced Echo, a new category of device designed around your voice. Echo was available on an invitation basis to customers who wanted to help shape the device as it evolved.
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Amazon Echo is a new category of device designed around your voice-it's always on, hands-free, and fast-just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more from across the room and get answers instantly. (Photo: Business Wire)
Here's what reviewers are saying about Echo:
A Perfect 10 - ZDNet
The Echo is one of the most compelling cases I've ever seen for the power of voice control, of talking to our gadgets the way we talk to each other. - The Verge
The Echo is Amazon's latest futuristic gadget experiment. It's one part Bluetooth speaker and one part personal voice assistant. And it blew my mind. - Mashable
The Echo may be the closest thing we'll have to a Star Trek computer at home. - CNET
Customers have given Echo a 4.5 star rating-here's what customers are saying:
The Echo is truly a genius piece of technology. The voice recognition and long range speech detection is the best I have seen. It understands what you are asking almost every time, and responds quickly.
Overall this is a fantastic, game-changing device.
Home just wouldn't seem like home now without the Amazon Echo standing ready for my next command or question. Bravo, Amazon!
The voice recognition is great and it keeps getting better as we use it...This is definitely one of the best electronic purchases we've ever made.
I couldn't be happier with Alexa'! She' is invaluable to my household - couldn't imagine life without her. I am so impressed with all the features and continuing enhancements by Amazon. I recommend the Echo to absolutely everyone I encounter.
The power of this device right now is amazing. Each week it appears more features - simple to use and configure - are added. Truly the future today.
I could not possible overstate how much I love my Echo. Seriously my favorite gadget purchase ever...and I purchase a lot of gadgets. I use it many times per day. Alexa (how one addresses Echo) is the first person' I talk to in the morning and the last at night.
Today, Amazon is excited to announce that Echo is now available for all customers. Order now for $179.99 at www.amazon.com/echo. Echo will start shipping July 14.
The customer response to Amazon Echo has been incredibly positive, and we've been working hard to build more as quickly as possible. We are grateful to our early customers for their incredible engagement and for providing us with invaluable feedback to help shape Echo as it evolves-with their help, we've been able to add features like Audible, Pandora, home automation, sports scores, calendar, and more, said Greg Hart, Vice President, Amazon Echo. We're excited to get Echo into the hands of even more customers and continue to invent new features and experiences.
Echo is designed around your voice and is hands-free and always on-ask for information, music, news, traffic, weather, and more from across the room and get results instantly. Echo uses far-field voice recognition with an array of seven microphones to clearly hear you around the room. Advanced beam-forming technology combines the signals from the individual microphones to suppress noise, reverberation, and even competing speech. Echo's advanced audio design includes dual downward-firing speakers that produce 360 omni-directional, room-filling audio.
Alexa-the brain behind Echo-is built in the cloud, so it is always getting smarter. At launch, Echo introduced hands-free voice control for music (Amazon Music, Prime Music, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn), information from Wikipedia and the web, weather, timers and alarms, news, and shopping/to-do lists. Over the last seven months, Alexa has added dozens of new features to expand its skillset, gotten better at answering all types of questions, and improved accuracy and speech recognition. New capabilities added since November include:
Connected home: With integration of Belkin WeMo and Philips Hue products, use Echo to switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or heater while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie-all without lifting a finger.
Pandora: Access Pandora's library of over 1 million tracks simply by asking Alexa for a station by genre, artist, or song. Once music is playing, you can pause and skip tracks using voice commands, and tell Alexa to give a track a thumbs up or thumbs down to train the station to your taste.
Audible: Listen to audiobooks from Audible with Echo. Simply say Alexa, read my book. Echo also supports Whispersync for Voice, which allows you to seamlessly switch between reading and listening without losing your spot. Start reading on Kindle, and pick up on Echo right where you left off.
Google Calendar: Access your Google calendar events with Echo-just use your voice. Hear what's on the calendar for the day or check if you're free for dinner with f
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Amazon Echo Now Available to All Customers 
