The Amazon Tap Portable Speaker makes Amazon’s Alexa voice service technology mobile and cheaper in one package. We reviewed the original Amazon Echo giving it rave reviews. How does the smaller and ...

After more than a year of flying under the radar by tech standards, Amazon's Alexa voice-controlled assistant platform is looking to become more mainstream, and one of its first moves to that end is ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, ...

Amazon landed with a splash in the smart home space, the Echo smart speaker opening our eyes to the potential of voice control, and Alexa hasn't stopped accelerating since. Now Echo has a baby sibling ...

Amazon's lineup of Alexa-enabled speakers includes three gadgets: the Echo ($180), the Tap ($130), and the Dot ($50). All of them let you use Alexa to do everything from control smart home devices to ...

Up to now, the portable Bluetooth and WiFi-enabled $129.99 Amazon Tap speaker has required you to press a microphone button to summon Amazon’s popular digital assistant Alexa. By contrast, with Amazon ...

Amazon's battery-powered Alexa speaker isn't available anymore, but if you're willing to splurge, the Alexa-enabled Maverick from Cavalier Audio is another option that looks, sounds and feels a whole ...

It’s been less than a week since the debut of a third-party web app aimed at helping the deaf community communicate with Alexa, and now Amazon is taking matters into its own hands. Beginning July 23, ...

Coincident with their announcement of new Fire tablets, Seattle-based Amazon this week also announced significant updates to its accessibility feature called Tap to Alexa that was heretofore available ...

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