Amazon launches Echo voice-controlled speaker and Alexa assistant in the UK
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#1TPW0)
Amazon's challenger to Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now makes the leap from the US in the form of a smart home-controlling speaker
Amazon is releasing its wireless, voice-controlled speaker, the Echo, in the UK and Germany, along with its Alexa personal assistant.
The Echo is a Wi-Fi speaker that users speak questions, commands and playback requests to, with Alexa - Amazon's challenger to Apple's Siri, Google's Now and Microsoft's Cortana - replying in kind, only now in a British accent.
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