Amazon’s new Echo Dot Kids Edition comes with a colorful case and parental controls

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17276164/amazon-echo-dot-kids-edition-freetime-price-announcement-features-specs

Alexa for kids

“Awexa, play songs from Moana.” If you have an Amazon Echo in your home and you also have kids, you’ve probably heard a variation of that phrase uttered before. Today, Amazon is making it easier for both kids and parents to integrate Alexa into their routines with the new Echo Dot Kids Edition and FreeTime services for Alexa.

The Echo Dot Kids Edition follows the formula of Amazon’s popular Fire Kids Edition tablets: it is a standard Echo Dot bundled with a protective rubber case (available in red, green, or blue), a year’s subscription to the FreeTime Unlimited service, and a two-year promise from Amazon to replace the device if it gets damaged, no questions asked. It sells for $79.99 — a $30 premium over a standard Echo Dot — and is available for preorder starting today, with shipments starting on May 9th.

In terms of technology and features, the Kids Edition Dot is the exact same thing as the standard Echo Dot that’s been around for nearly two years. It has seven far-field microphones for picking up voice commands, a built-in speaker for playing back Alexa’s voice responses or music, and the ability to connect to a larger speaker via Bluetooth or an audio cable.

 

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It comes with something even better than a colorful case and parental controls... Surveillance.

You can probably bet money (and win) that every single thing you say to the Amazon Echo, or around it while it is enabled, is being recorded and that most of the recorded data will be processed for potential usage in training their Artificial Intelligence for speech recognition improvements.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

They are always listening because to hear the trigger words, they need to be listening.

I'd strongly discourage any sort of devices in the home.. It will get ugly - possibly soon - with all of this.