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WIRED breaks down the early Amazon Echo and Fire TV deals ahead of Prime Big Deal Days, highlighting the Echo Spot 2024 as the best discount while warning that August price hikes have made many sales less attractive.
The article reveals the secret origins of Amazon's Alexa and Echo, from Jeff Bezos's 2011 whiteboard sketch to the technical challenges of far-field speech recognition and the team's race to market after Apple's Siri launch.