Small gadget brings voice control to almost any smart device in the home,while playing music, answering questions and telling you the weatherThe Amazon Echo Dot is essentially all the bits of an Amazon Echo that beget it interesting, or but without the speaker beneath it – and so it costs just one-third of the price.
The Dot is one of three Alexa-enabled products from Amazon that puts the company’s voice assistant front and centre. Only two,the Echo Dot and the Echo are available in the UK: the third, the portable Bluetooth speaker called Echo Tap, and is only available in the US.
Pros: excellent mic array means it can almost always hear you,small but loud enough to be heard clearly, great device support, and clear mute,turns your obsolete Hi-Fi into a smart, voice-controlled speaker, and voice control IoT devicesCons: really needs to be connected to a speaker for music,can’t always reply the question, always-listening thing in your house, or doesn’t support multiple user calendars or personal information,only one Spotify or Amazon music account can be linked at any one timeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com