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SMART HOME BASICS
Smarten up
Amazon’s AZ1 Neural Edge
processor means voice
commands are handled
on-device rather than in the
cloud. This makes speech
recognition up to twice as
fast as before.Button up
Most of the time you’ll
interact with the Echo using
your voice, but it has physical
buttons on top as well: two to
adjust the volume, one to get
Alexa’s attention and another
to mute the mics.Clean up
The latest Echo is made from
100% recycled fabric and
aluminium components plus
50% recycled plastic. It also
has a new low-power mode,
which saves your electricity
bill as well as the planet.