Of all the voice-controlled, virtual assistants I have access to across the various devices I own and use, I converse with Amazon’s Alexa the most. Alexa wakes me up in the mornings, turns my lights on and off, lets me know when my pasta is cooked, keeps tabs on my grocery list, and tells me what tomorrow’s weather is going to be like when I’m planning my outfit. It’s not that Siri, Google Assistant, or Cortana can’t do the same things — they certainly can — it’s that Alexa is the most accessible of the voice assistants. And, in my home, that makes it the most used.
Alexa is so accessible thanks to the diminutive Echo Dot. The least expensive of Amazon’s Echo devices, the Dot is cheap enough and small enough that I can place it in...
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16075278/verge-editors-choice-amazon-echo-dot
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/verge-editors-choice-amazon-echo-dot.html
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