Amazon's best-sounding Echo speaker got a redesign, better smart home features, and stronger performance. Here's everything ...

Amazon and Google are fierce competitors in the smart home space, but will Amazon's Echo Dot or Google's Nest give you better ...

Does Alexa suddenly sound a little different on your Amazon Echo smart speaker? It’s not your imagination: Amazon is rolling out an upgraded version of its virtual assistant called Alexa+ to members ...

Say what you like about the relatively slow evolution of Alexa as a voice assistant (and the slightly slower emergence of Alexa+ as a more advanced AI system), Amazon has absolutely thrashed Apple and ...

It’s a strange world when companies put their AI units into a subscription-based platform to give consumers a bit of an “edge” over free users and access to capabilities that others may not have.

The Amazon Echo Studio 2nd Generation smart speaker amps up the style and Alexa's AI capabilities. But how does it compare ...

Ty Pendlebury is CNET's senior editor for TV and home audio, and author of the daily Insider newsletter. He has rigorously tested, reviewed and written about AV equipment for the company since 2006.

An older Alexa speaker still does the basics, but the Echo Show 11 adds practical features that quickly become part of ...

Amazon blames the weird noises users were hearing Alexa make on an issue with the service's text-to-speech model.

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away starting on ...

Amazon sells the Echo Dot for $49. Amazon is also the company selling it for $29 during Prime Day, which leaves very little room for profit on its own hardware. The newest Echo Do ...

Ty Pendlebury is CNET's senior editor for TV and home audio, and author of the daily Insider newsletter. He has rigorously tested, reviewed and written about AV equipment for the company since 2006.