Amazon's New Echo Dot Now Works As An Eero Wi-Fi Extender And Smart Home Hub
It has a new onboard AI processor that allows for more natural Alexa+ conversations.
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As part of its big Echo refresh, Amazon just unveiled a new Echo Dot with some useful updates. The tiny globular speaker can now serve as a smart home hub with support for multiple protocols and thousands of devices, for one. And the new Dot now works as an eero Wi-Fi extender to stretch your in-home wireless internet range.
The new Echo Dot is the first to be equipped with Amazon's custom-designed AZ3 chip for on-device AI voice processing. That, the company says, will allow for more natural conversations with Alexa+ since your voice commands won't need to make a round-trip to a data center. Amazon also added a fourth microphone so the Dot can hear you better as you move around a room. The extra...
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