Smart Speakers
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Hands On: Amazon Echo Show 5
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Released earlier this month, the Amazon Echo Show 5 is a 5.5” smart screen and speaker with built-in support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.
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Amazon updates Echo Show smart screen
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As well as letting users control their smart home devices via Amazon’s Alexa assistant, the Echo Show 5 can be used to listen to songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and Pandora, view news clips and watch ‘how-to videos’ through a partnership with wikiHow.
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BBC unveils new ‘choose your own adventure’ audio adventure for Amazon Echo
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Inspired by ‘choose your own adventure’ style games and books, The Inspection Chamber allows listeners to shape the story’s path by giving answers at crucial plot points, guiding events towards one of several possible endings.
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Deal alert: Amazon shaves £50 off Amazon Echo
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Both devices include Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, and provide access to a range of music services and third party services. They can also be paired with the firm’s Amazon Fire TV boxes and used to control third party devices such as an EE TV set top box.
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‘Play The Grand Tour’ – Amazon’s Fire TV can now be controlled by the Echo smart speaker
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The update means Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant can open Fire TV apps and find your favourite shows, such as Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour.