Clearly, the company wants its digital assistant in more places, and has heard people griping about how poor the sound quality is on its Echo devices, or, those who use the line-out connection to connect them to their pre-existing, more powerful dumb speakers.

It's available for pre-order right now and will ship later this year. Most interesting? Amazon says that the device is designed to ship with other speakers from third parties and that we'll see evidence of that in the coming months.