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2014year
Amazon's press release of June 23, 2015 says Amazon introduced Echo seven months earlier, which places the introduction of Echo, the device built around Alexa, in November 2014.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Seven months ago, Amazon introduced Echo, a new category of device designed around your voice.”
Amazon Echo Now Available to All Customers, Amazon Press Center, 2015, Press release, first paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- Amazon's own press release of June 23, 2015, which opened Echo to all US customers. Before that date Echo was available only by invitation. The release names Alexa as the brain behind Echo, so this row dates the launch of Alexa's first device.
- What it does not show
- The release gives 'seven months ago' rather than a date, so the month is calculated and the day is unknown. Alexa is named as the brain behind Echo, so the row dates Alexa's launch through its first device, not through a separate Alexa announcement.
In the data
A row of History of Dictation Software: A Dated Timeline, as Amazon Alexa launch: 2,014 year.
- Event
- Launch
- Product
- Amazon Alexa
- Maker
- Amazon
- Date
- 2014-11
- Kind
- Voice assistant
- Note
- 2014 is not in the quote. The release says seven months before June 23, 2015, which is November 2014.