Amazon ECHO – your personal assistant
Whenever we come across the word “personal assistant”, the first thing that comes in our mind is SIRI . SIRI is a great innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and that’s what Amazon ECHO is. Amazon ECHO is now your new personal assistant that comes in the form of cylindrical speaker and an always listening assistant ALEXA.

What is ECHO?
Amazon ECHO is a new innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It’s a speaker with an inbuilt microphone which is always listening. You can turn off this microphone with the help of button on the ECHO. You can do a lot with this like asking about weather information, news headlines, setting an alarm , play your favorite singer’s song, shuffle your phone’s playlist, control your home appliances, ask general questions and many more. Just say Alexa, followed by your command. Alexa is wake word used for Amazon ECHO. You can change this wake word to “Amazon” or “ECHO” if you want.
It has two connectivity options Wi-Fi 802.11/a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0.

In multimedia part it consists of a woofer and tweeter. For voice capturing it has a 7- microphone array(Six mic arranged symmetrical on the perimeter and one on the center). It has a volume control wheel on the top surrounded with blue LED ring. It also has a mute button in case if you don’t want ECHO to listen.
Amazon ECHO runs on Amazon Web Services. ECHO can be manually waked up by pressing button or it can be remotely waked up by uttering its wake up command. Its voice recognizing works on Amazon Web Services and Amazon common voice platform hence it will first require an Internet connection to connect to its Server.

ECHO vs SIRI
Till date SIRI was considered to be best Virtual personal assistant, but here are some of the features which make ECHO better than