Alexa, make my kid polite: Echo to get child-friendly update
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April 26, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Alexa's new missions: encourage kids to ask questions more politely, and get them to bed on time.
The voice assistant that lives inside Amazon's Echo speakers will soon thank kids for shouting out questions "nicely" if they say "please." The new response is part of a kid-friendly update that's coming next month, giving parents more control over the voice assistant. Adults can set Alexa to go silent at bedtime, block music with explicit lyrics and even call kids down to dinner.
"Gone are the days of shouting up the stairs," Amazon said in a statement Wednesday.
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