Echo Gains Skills and Boosts Amazon’s Competitiveness

Just as Amazon (AMZN) is preparing to meet investors and analysts to discuss its 1Q18 results, its Echo device has gained skills and given Amazon more of an edge in the increasingly competitive smart speaker market. In the first week of April, Amazon introduced Alexa Announcements, a feature that transforms Echo into an in-house intercom system for broadcasting messages to other speakers in different rooms. The Echo intercom feature could be ideal for a large household.