Amazon Introduces Echo Show 15 to Help Keep Families Organized, Connected, and Entertained
Echo Show 15 is a brand new Echo Show with a beautiful 15.6 inch display that you can mount on your wall or place on your counter
The customizable home screen with Alexa widgets makes it easy to stay organized: view your shared calendar, manage your shopping and to-do lists, find inspiration for your meals, and more
Stay connected inside and outside the home: View and control smart home devices, track packages, leave notes for family members or call loved ones
Stream 1080p Full HD content from Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, and soon SLING TV, for hours of entertainment all day long
Built with the next-generation Amazon AZ2 Neural Edge processor, Echo Show 15 is capable of processing speech and computer vision on the device
SEATTLE, September 28, 2021– (BUSINESS WIRE) – (NASDAQ: AMZN) —Amazon today introduced Echo Show 15, a new addition to the Echo Show family designed to be the digital heart of your home. With a 15.6-inch Full HD 1080p display, Echo Show 15 can be mounted on a wall or placed on a counter, in portrait or landscape orientation, and is designed to help you stay organized, connected and entertained. Echo Show 15 is built with the next-generation Amazon AZ2 Neural Edge processor, a redesigned home screen with more personalization options, new personalization features with visual ID, and all-new Alexa experiences.
“Families today are juggling several competing priorities: what time to drop the kids off for soccer practice, what to prepare for dinner, or when to plan the next date — the list goes on and on. With Echo Show 15, Alexa can help you, “said Tom Taylor, senior vice president of Amazon Alexa.” Echo Show 15 brings together everything that makes your household work in one place. With a redesigned home screen and Alexa widgets, you can customize Echo Show 15 to see your shared family calendar, manage to-do lists and reminders, find inspiration for meals, and keep track of your incoming packages. Moreover, Echo Show 15 can adapt to your home environment with full screen photos or artwork.
With customizable Alexa widgets, Echo Show 15 brings everything families need together on its beautiful 15.6-inch Full HD display. To complement the ambient rotating content, you can personalize your device’s home screen with the help of a new widget gallery, which allows you to choose and add the most useful information for you and your family. . Alexa widgets are continually refreshed to stay up to date, so that you always have the latest information and can easily rearrange them to suit your needs and preferences.
Personalize your experience with Visual ID
With the new Visual ID feature, Alexa can recognize you and customize the on-screen information on Echo Show 15. After signing up for Visual ID, if you walk past Echo Show 15, Alexa will recognize you and the The screen will automatically update to show you a personalized greeting, your personal reminders, calendar events, recently played music, or personal notes from other people in your home. If you enroll your child for visual identification for children, the Echo Show 15 home screen will move to show only age-appropriate content when your child is recognized. To learn more about the development of Visual ID and how it works, visit the Amazon Science blog.
Organize your household
With Echo Show 15, you can quickly view and update your household’s shared calendar, add or remove items from your shopping list, rearrange your favorite items, check your to-do list, and more. And now, with Echo Show 15 in your kitchen, it’s easy to decide what to eat right now or plan your meals for the week. You can get delivery options from restaurants like Domino’s; recipe recommendations from Allrecipes, Tasty, Epicurious, and more; or order Blue Apron Meal Kits to create meals with easy step-by-step instructions. You can also create a personalized taste profile with your family’s food preferences, so Alexa displays recipe and restaurant recommendations tailored to your needs.
Stay connected to your home and to others
Staying connected means seamlessly managing the devices and services that power your home. A smart home favorites widget lets you view and control your most used compatible smart home devices with just a tap. The large screen means you can use picture-in-picture viewing to follow a recipe, while keeping an eye on the nursery camera. You can also track personal devices and things like Echo Buds and Tile trackers, or monitor the proximity of a delivery to your home on a dynamically updated map widget.
Echo Show 15 also helps you stay in touch with loved ones inside and outside the home. With the sticky notes widget, you can leave a note about dinner time for family members or a reminder to take the dog for a walk. Plus, with Visual ID, you can send a note directly to a specific family member, which won’t appear until Alexa recognizes them in front of the device. With its 15.6-inch display and 5-megapixel camera, the Echo Show 15 is also ideal for video calling, or visiting a loved one inside or outside your home.
Enjoy the entertainment you love
With its large screen and support for 1080p video streaming, Echo Show 15 can also double as a kitchen TV. Just ask Alexa to watch movies and TV shows from Prime Video, Netflix, or Hulu, or soon take advantage of SLING TV support. You will also soon be able to watch your favorite TikTok videos; catching up on ABC news, NBC News NOW and CBS News; ask Alexa to play music or read your Audible book; or even catch a segment of The daily show to start your morning. Echo Show 15 can also blend seamlessly into your decor by displaying full-screen images from Amazon Photos or alternating visuals from preloaded art, nature, seasonal, or travel galleries.
Powered by the all-new next-generation AZ2 processor
Echo Show 15 is powered by the next-generation Amazon AZ2 Neural Edge processor, a machine learning (ML) inference engine with a scalable quad-core architecture and 22 times the TOPS (trillions of operations per second) than the previous generation. Like AZ1, it is capable of processing speech recognition on the device and can also handle computer vision (CV) workloads in parallel. The AZ2 architecture is custom designed by Amazon and runs ML-based speech models much faster than its predecessor, allowing CV algorithms that once required the immense computing power of the cloud to be processed entirely at the edge. . This means that Echo Show 15 is able to recognize a person registered with visual identification and will be able to process their voice directly on the device.
Confidentiality and accessibility
Echo Show 15 is designed with privacy in mind; it has microphone and camera controls, the ability to view and delete your voice recordings, and a built-in shutter to cover the camera. Visual ID is optional and requires explicit registration, and you can remove your Visual ID profile at any time through device settings or the Alexa app. To learn more about the features that provide transparency and control over your Alexa experience, visit the Alexa Privacy Hub: http://www.amazon.com/alexaprivacy. Additionally, Echo Show 15 offers accessibility features that benefit all customers, including the ability to interact with Alexa using touch instead of voice, to see captions for Alexa’s responses on the device screen, and more. For more information, visit http://www.amazon.com/alexaaccessibility.
Pricing and availability
Echo Show 15 will be available for $ 249.99. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/EchoShow15. Countertop brackets and under cabinet mounting accessories are sold separately. Echo Show 15 has the Climate Pledge Friendly badge on Amazon.com, a distinction to help customers discover and buy more sustainable products.
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