Echo Dot (2nd Generation)

Amazon's assistant w/ improved voice recognition and design

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Amazon's assistant w/ improved voice recognition and design

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Launch tags:Home•E-Commerce•Virtual Assistants

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Serious, possibly silly question: is the Echo Dot a standalone device or does it require connection to the Echo to function? No brainer if standalone for only $50.

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10yr ago

@ryan_haigh It's a standalone device. It has a small speaker for timers/alarms/ Alexa's responses etc but if you want to play music etc we'd recommend you connect it to an external speaker. Otherwise, the echo has built in room filling sound with its built in speakers.

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10yr ago

@deanbryen excellent. Thanks a bunch!

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10yr ago

@ryan_haigh sup ry

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10yr ago

@jonathangcohen sup duder 😎

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

I'm impressed with how the Alexa platform has grown but Amazon needs to build better discovery of Skills. At the very least, please offer a permalink to Skills on the web. 🙏

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10yr ago

@rrhoover shouldn't there be a producthunt list for that :)

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10yr ago

Lensabl

@rrhoover the app needs some work too.

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10yr ago

Love Amazon's strategy on this product. I have Echo for Kitchen (music, IoT, timer, etc). Tap for Pool (music), now 6 Dots on the way for (IoT/Home Automation) in most rooms. The skills keep you engaged to using the product. Think they should have put a LED clock on the dots though.

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10yr ago

AI Test Kitchen

@richardginsberg meanwhile, they want to implement Alexa directly in other brands' speakers. It seems a bit contradictory to me -- what do you think?

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10yr ago

@vnallatamby Alexa is the real product. Echo/Tap/Dot/Fire are just the delivery vehicles. Hardware always becomes a commodity business. Few have mastered scale and logistics to make a longstanding hardware franchise with decent margins. So it makes sense that they start opening up Alexa to 3rd party. In theory Amazon should be able to generate more revenue from the adoption of voice based eCommerce and affiliate commissions (i.e. Ordering Uber or Pizza). It wouldn't shock me if the Amazon Alexa hardware products are discontinued in 3-5 years, if the low-brand 3rd party bring Alexa enabled products to a price point where it makes it difficult to invest further R&D and marketing. Just look at the flood of cheap Android based tablets. I see it as jettisoning rocket boosters after the fuel is spent. But, you never know, Amazon seems pretty comfortable with low margin/high volume

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10yr ago

Crowdfund Research

I became an echo user after the dot was already unavailable. My only complaint was the lack of audio out. Glad to see Amazon isn't abandoning the dot, preordered one for each room!

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10yr ago