Amazon Discounts Echo Dot and Echo Speakers for a Limited Time in India

Google has just announced its Google Home range of products in India which gives a direct fight to the likes of Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot. To counter this new release by Google, Amazon has put up a discount of Rs 2,000 on the purchase of two Echo Dot speakers. The Echo Dot which retails at Rs 4,499 on the Amazon India website can be purchased at Rs 2,000 less for Rs 7,998 when bought two at a time. Also, the higher version of the speaker, the Echo which retails at Rs 9,999 can be bought at Rs 16,998 when bought two at a time.

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Previously also Amazon had been selling the Echo Dot, Echo and Echo Plus at the discounted prices of Rs 3,149, Rs 6,999 and Rs 10,499 respectively. It is worth noting that these smart speakers ship with a free one-year Amazon Prime membership and complimentary Prime Music access. With the coming of new competition in the market from Google’s side, Amazon has put up this new discount one year after the launch of its AI-based product.

The Echo being a smart speaker, functions on a skill base model. The Amazon Echo landed on the Indian shores on October 31, 2017, and it came with 11,000 skills. Further, the company spoke about the developments and said that within 60 days of the product going live, 1000 new skills were added to the store, now making the number of skills available on Echo store up to 12,000. Some Indian specific skills include starting Hanuman Chalisa, enabling Gayatri Mantra, GK India quiz etc.

The Amazon Echo has been designed to answer to its wake word whenever it is spoken in its proximity. The default wake word for all the Amazon Echo products is ‘Alexa’ which is the name of Amazon’s in-house voice assistant. Speaking the wake word followed by a command will intimidate the smart speaker to follow that and perform the required task given that it is within its capabilities. Also, with the growing attention towards the smart speakers market the range of skills which Alexa can demonstrate is growing continuously.