Amazon Echo Dot

With the Amazon Echo, the online retailer essentially created an entirely new genre of product. The ‘smart speaker’, as it’s become known, was a means for Amazon to take its voice assistant, Alexa, and turn it from a piece of software made primarily for searching video catalogues into a much more general assistant. Alexa has grown from an interesting curiosity into a very capable voice assistant that can help you with everything from telling you the weather to playing