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Today’s smart speakers owe a lot to the original Amazon Echo, so every new flagship Echo model is hotly anticipated by industry watchers — it tends to set the bar for whatever follows. The fourth-generation Echo, released in 2020, has largely kept up that track record. Over a year later, it’s time to ask what we’d want from an Amazon Echo 5th gen model, especially with pressure mounting from companies like Apple, Google, and Sonos.