Amazon.com launched Echo Show, a touchscreen device that will allow users to video call and watch clips from CNN, the latest in the company's series of successful Echo voice-controlled speakers.

The device will go on sale in June for about $230. It will feature Alexa, Amazon's voice-controlled aide, that can be used to play music, order an Uber or turn on the house lights.

The Echo Show features a seven-inch touch screen that can pull up calendar appointments, display music lyrics, play videos and a lot more. The debut follows last month's introduction of the Echo Look, which can evaluate a user's wardrobe.

Amazon has managed to outflank Google, which began selling its Home device two years after the Echo debuted, and Apple, which is still working on its own Siri-based version.

Amazon says the device will also play camera feeds from connected devices as baby monitors and camera-equipped door bells. Services that already connect to the Echo will be able to display information.

This is the first Echo speaker with a built-in camera. The five-megapixel sensor makes possible a new video conferencing service that Amazon is rolling out alongside the new hardware. Similar to Apple's FaceTime, the service lets people make video calls from one Echo Show to another, or between the Show and an updated Alexa app on a smartphone. The service doubles as an intercom, allowing a person to call an Alexa speaker in another room without a camera. Users can't currently make cell phone calls via the Echo Show.

The Intel-powered device has better sound than its predecessor, eight microphones instead of seven and can now connect directly to WiFi, not solely via the Alexa smartphone app. By pushing a button, you can disable the camera and microphones.

The new Echo will stream music from Amazon's Spotify and Pandora services.

In a recent research note, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple may debut an Echo rival next month at the company's annual developer's conference.

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