A personal assistant in the form of a Hockey puck, the Echo Dot, relies on its popular Alexa voice interface to get the job done.
Google plans to launch Google Home later this year. Like the Amazon Echo, Google Home is a connected smart speaker controlled through voice commands and largely intended to serve as the central hub of an increasingly digital smart home. In time, multiple digital personal assistants could flourish, but consumers have limited spending power and only so much table space.
Amazon Echo, the voice-controlled, screen-less household computer by Amazon has impressed almost everyone and this is not a good sign for Apple.
Amazon Echo - part-wireless speaker, part-home gadget - is now available for anyone to purchase. The cylinder-shaped device syncs with smartphones to play music, read aloud news and weather and order products directly from Amazon.
