page_title: Amazon Echo
section_title: Echo Flex
hierarchical_section_title: Amazon Echo / Variants / Echo Flex
caption_attribution_description: English: Echo Flex device
context_page_description: Amazon Echo is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which will respond when you say "Alexa". Users may change this wake word to "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". The features of the device include: voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, and playing audiobooks, in addition to providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices, acting as a home automation hub. The smart speaker needs to use Wi-Fi to connect to Internet, there is no Ethernet port.
  According to confirmed reports, Amazon started developing Echo devices inside its Lab126 offices in Silicon Valley and in Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 2010. The device represented one of first attempts to expand its device portfolio beyond the Kindle e-reader. The Echo featured prominently in Amazon's first-ever Super Bowl broadcast television advertisement in 2016.
  Amazon initially limited the first-generation Echo to Amazon Prime members or by invitation, but it became widely available in the United States on June 23, 2015.
context_section_description: On 14 November 2019, Amazon released the Echo Flex for $24.99.  It is a small device with a speaker that you plug directly into a wall outlet.  It has a full-sized USB port into the bottom to charge other devices or into which you can plug additional accessories, such as a motion sensor.
caption: The Amazon Echo Flex
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