Amazon Echo now available to everyone

Earlier today, Armando Ferreira explained via his Google+ page that the Amazon Echo is now available to the masses. In fact, if you head over to Amazon’s front page at around the time of this post, you should see a letter from Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos confirming this.

The Amazon Echo is a computer controlled entirely by voice commands. It is able “to understand language requests, from many voices, from across a room, even when music is playing.” In order to accomplish this, the device has seven microphones, beam-forming technology, and noise cancellation, which come together to form far-field voice recognition.

Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service powering Echo, provides information, music, news, weather, and so forth. Since its invitation-only program in November, the company has added support for Pandora, Audible audiobooks, calendar access, live sports scores and schedules, traffic reports, Amazon.com re-ordering, and control of connected devices like WeMo and Philips Hue’s lights and switches.

Bezos adds that many of these were the result of feedback and suggestions from customers who were invited to test the device. With that in mind, Amazon could add more now that the Echo can be obtained by anyone.

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