How the Amazon Echo learned to talk — and listen
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Jeff Bezos envisioned a voice-controlled computer for years, but Amazon's development team faced countless technical challenges when building the Echo speaker and Alexa assistant. Despite these obstacles, Amazon secretly developed and quietly launched the Echo with minimal fanfare, creating a breakthrough product that brought voice computing to millions of homes and sparked debate about its role in the AI revolution.
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