The Triby kitchen speaker is now equipped with Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant

The Alexa Voice Service (AVS) isn’t new. Amazon released the intelligent cloud service that adds voice-enabled experiences to any connected product with a microphone and speaker earlier this year.

Think of Alexa as the Siri of Amazon products.

However, the Triby, a non-Amazon product is now featuring the service and it’s turning the ordinary kitchen into a really smart kitchen.

Triby is a family-friendly kitchen device that combines music, messaging and communication functionality in one voice-activated product. Triby acts as a digital assistant, Internet radio, connected speaker, hands-free speakerphone, and connected message board, and now that it has added Alexa to its list of capabilities, users can ask the speaker (hands-free) for all kinds of information from Wikipedia and the web, weather, timers and alarms, news, shopping and to-do lists, sports updates and scores.

Triby comes equipped with two built-in speakers and a passive radiator that are managed by 3D-algorithms that create immersive soundscapes with profound bass and clear treble. The device is geared toward the kitchen with its magnetic abilities, but it’s still a portable device and can be taken anywhere.

It also features an array of microphones and In Vivo Acoustic Technology with background noise cancellation so it can actually hear you from across the room even while music is playing.

If you’re a post-it lover, Triby allows you to send messages, emojis and hand drawn doodles on its E-Ink display via its accompanying mobile app. Just for fun, it even has a mailbox flag that alerts you of incoming messages.

The kitchen device is available for purchase for $200 on the website.