We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's six years since the first Amazon Echo arrived, igniting a whole new category of smart speakers and making the idea of talking to a ...

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Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

Amazon is making a huge overhaul to its Echo devices, but it's not what the users are expecting. Starting March 28, the feature that keeps Alexa voice recordings away from Amazon's cloud will be gone.

On May 9th, 2017 Amazon released a major upgrade to the wildly popular Voice First Echo platform called Echo Show [0] (for the last two years, I called it the Echo “Look” for a lot of reasons). This ...

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Echo, the voice-activated speaker that Amazon announced last November, is officially going on sale today to the masses. A limited number of the devices became available earlier this year by invitation ...

Amazon Echo devices will stop supporting local processing of voice requests starting March 28, 2025. The update applies to the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” feature, which was limited to certain Echo ...