Alexa Amazon is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice service to play music, make calls, send and receive messages.
Beyond asking for music, you can use Alexa to search Wikipedia (“Alexa, who was Steve Jobs?”), make quick cooking conversions (“Alexa, how many milligrams in a kilogram?”), or create a to-do list (“Alexa, add ‘book a tennis court to my to-do list.”) A growing list of built-in capabilities and third-party skills means that your Alexa device keeps improving the longer you own it. Alexa services being offered free to third-party gadget and app developers. It's an exciting concept because it means more people benefit from tech advances. The more the bots can do, the more the novices benefit. And, that leads to another exciting prospect. Someday, Alexa and other bots will replace your phone. We won't have to learn new apps or bother trying to configure all of the settings.