Here's how to make a DIY Amazon Echo

Amazon’s Echo is great. It’s a speaker for music, a digital assistant with Amazon’s excellent Alexa voice control, and a useful smart home controller. But why buy an Echo from Amazon when you could build one yourself?

Interesting use of a Raspberry Pi and the Alexa Voice Service.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/13/15787808/amazon-echo-alexa-diy-raspberry-pi-matrix-creator-how-to