Amazon's Fire TV media streamers have offered the Alexa voice assistant, voice search, and voice commands for a few years now. All you have to do is press the button on the remote and speak into the pinhole microphone to control Fire TV with your voice. If you have an Echo, an Echo Dot, or another Amazon device that lets you use Alexa with a wake-up word, you can pair it with a Fire TV to control your streaming media experience by voice. Or you can get a $119.99 Amazon Fire TV Cube and enjoy all of the features of the Fire TV/Echo combination, including hands-free control of your home theater, in one package. The Fire TV Cube has a far-field microphone array that can pick up your voice and activate Alexa with a wake word instead of through a button press and a single mic on a remote. It's certainly more expensive than the Fire TV Stick 4K, but the addition of hands-free Alexa commands makes it an excellent media streamer for anyone who doesn't already own Fire TV and Echo devices,...
The Amazon Fire TV Cube combines the best features of the Fire TV with the hands-free voice control and Alexa capabilities of the Echo, in a single media streamer.
Hands-free voice control with Alexa; Lots of connected apps and services; Far-field microphone array can understand your voice over TV audio; Voice control works for home theater as well as smart home devices
Does not support Google Play content; No Dolby Vision capability; Alexa can occasionally get confused by syntax