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Amazon’s smart speakers connect to your home Wi-Fi and use Amazon Alexa voice control to handle a wide variety of tasks — setting timers, streaming music, controlling smart home gadgets and more.

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The best smart speakers are powered by one of three smart assistants: Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri, or the Google Home Assistant. Alexa remains the most popular as it works with the widest variety ...

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The baseline of the Alexa hardware experience is the Echo, the fourth-generation of which takes the power and smart home hub of the Echo Plus and puts it in a round package. The sub-$100 Alexa ...

Amazon’s smart speakers connect to your home Wi-Fi and use Amazon Alexa voice control to handle a wide variety of tasks — setting timers, streaming music, controlling smart home gadgets and more.

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