Alibaba to launch product similar to Amazon Echo: source

The amazon echo is seen on display at the Amazon Books store in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in New York City, New York, U.S., May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd would launch a product mimicking Amazon.com Inc's Echo next week, according to a source familiar with the matter. 

Amazon Echo, launched in 2014, is a speaker which one can leave on all day and give voice commands to, similar to Siri on an Apple Inc iPhone.