Child-friendly exchange apostle to alpha aircraft from May 9, as Amazon bolsters Alexa affectionate controls with FreeTime service.
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Amazon has appear a sort-of-new Echo accessory advised for a adolescent audience. Accessible for pre-order from today advanced of a abounding barrage on May 9, the Echo Dot Kids Edition is priced at $79 and comes with a year’s chargeless exceptional cable to Amazon’s new FreeTime affectionate controls service.
Let’s alpha off with the ‘new’ device, which comes in red, blue, or green. If you’re accustomed with Amazon’s Kindle Fire Kids Edition series, you already apperceive what to apprehend — it’s a approved Echo Dot with a brightly-colored elastic awning to assure adjoin bumps and bruises (on the accessory and children). Amazon is additionally alliance to alter that it will alter any Echo Dot Kids Edition accessory if it gets damaged aural the aboriginal two years of purchase, letters The Verge.
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You can apprehend added about the Echo Dot here, but in short, it’s a miniaturized adaptation of Amazon’s Echo acute apostle band able with the e-commerce giant’s agenda assistant, Alexa.
As with the approved model, which retails for hardly beneath at $49, the Echo Dot Kids can additionally be affiliated to added Bluetooth speakers for an bigger audio experience.
So what makes the Echo Dot Kids account an added $30, abreast from the careful case and new packaging? That’d be the FreeTime service, which Amazon says will additionally be accessible for added Echo accessories at an added exceptional in the abreast future.
There are two tiers to FreeTime, one chargeless and the added starting at $2.99 for anyone with a Prime subscription, but both basically transform Alexa into a kid-friendly abettor for accouchement age-old amid 5 and 12 years old.
On a basal level, FreeTime banned assertive Alexa appearance such as shopping, acute home commands, and any third-party skills, while additionally abacus affectionate controls for akin how abounding hours a adolescent can admission Alexa per day. There’s a dashboard with options for attached admission to specific songs and audiobooks too.
The above change, however, is to Alexa, whose affection set has been adapted to clothing a adolescent user-base. With FreeTime active, Alexa will bear longer, added detail responses to queries, but with a simpler vocabulary. Amazon has additionally tweaked Alexa’s articulation acceptance to accept mispronunciations. Another absurd accession is “Magic Word,” which prompts Alexa to bowl out acclaim whenever the user says “please” afterward a request.
For the exceptional tier, dubbed FreeTime Unlimited, Amazon is alms admission to over 300 child-friendly Audible audiobooks, custom alarms and Alexa abilities from Disney, Nickelodeon, and more, as able-bodied as ad-free admission to iHeartRadio Family.
You can pre-order an Echo Dot Kids Edition via the button below. Let us apperceive your thoughts on the kid-friendly acute apostle in the comments!
- Amazon launches Echo Dot acute apostle alternative for kids with a careful case and two-year guarantee.
- Echo Dot Kids Edition priced at $79 accessible or pre-order advanced of May 9 aircraft date.
- FreeTime account launched with bigger affectionate controls and tweaked Alexa features.
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