An Amazon employee has released a step-by-step guide to building an Alexa-powered speaker yourself with a Raspberry Pi. The DIY model will only cost you about $52.54 in total.

The assembled Alexa-enhanced, Raspberry Pi-powered speaker. Image via Amit Jotwani, Amazon/GitHub. Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based AI assistant, is quickly expanding from her original Echo form.

Amazon wants to push its Alexa voice assistant as far and wide as possible, so much so that one of the company’s employees has released a step-by-step guide to building an Alexa-powered speaker… ...

Amazon Unveils How To Build Your Own Alexa Approved Raspberry Pi-Powered Echo Smart Speaker by Chris Goetting — Saturday, March 26, 2016, 12:56 PM EDT Comments ...

Can't afford an Amazon Echo smart speaker? Just build one yourself. The company's GitHub page provides an incredibly detailed manual for running Alexa Voice Service on a Raspberry Pi. Step-by-step ...

You can now build a voice product that integrates Amazon Alexa Voice Service and Google Assistant on your Raspberry Pi. Written by Eileen Brown, Contributor Sept. 13, 2017 at 1:36 p.m. PT ...

The do-it-yourself Echo can be made with a $40 Raspberry Pi Model 2, a USB microphone, and a handful of other cheap components. The guide was put together and posted to GitHub by Amit Jotwani ...

What You’ll Need. As you’d expect, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi alongside a handful of parts: A Raspberry Pi 3 (recommended) or Raspberry Pi 2 (you’ll also need a USB Wi-FI adapter with the ...