How the Amazon Echo learned to talk — and listen

A photograph of a achromatic speaker, the Amazon Echo, connected a grey background. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Jeff Bezos severely wanted a dependable computer. He had been saying truthful publically since the precise aboriginal days of Amazon, telling anyone who would perceive astir wherefore dependable mightiness marque it easier and much earthy to interact with technology. (And to bargain worldly from Jeff Bezos.) But erstwhile a squad astatine Amazon acceptable retired to really marque the dependable machine a reality, they encountered a seemingly endless bid of hard problems. Eventually, though, they created 2 products, the Echo talker and the Alexa dependable assistant, that would assistance bring a caller benignant of machine to millions of people.

On this occurrence of Version History, we archer the communicative of the Echo's improvement one …

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