Amazon launches Echo voice-controlled speaker and Alexa assistant in the UK
September 14, 2016
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 speakerAmazon 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. Continue reading