You Can Now Buy the Amazon Echo Spot in Canada

The first difference is this Dot comes wrapped in a colorful rubber case available in red, green, or blue, and backed with a two year guarantee. It also has a two-year warranty. These new offerings bring Alexa-specific features and content to Amazon’s FreeTime and FreeTime Unlimited services for children. Those who are new to FreeTime Unlimited can sign up for as low as $2.99 per month.

Those parental controls are made available via Amazon FreeTime, a service that can set bedtime limits and block explicit songs from playing on the Echo Dot Kids Edition. Now, the speaker offers positive reinforcement when a child says certain phrases like “please” and “thank you”.

Will it sound any better than the Echo Dot?

The new Echo Dot comes in more colors than just Black and White and is also sturdier than the regular device. “We can’t wait for parents and kids to try this out”.

There’s a new Alexa in town and this time she’s aimed at kids. Encouraging children to use the word “please” and imposing limitations on when and how they can use their Echo may help mitigate those issues.

Household Communications – Gone are the days of shouting up the stairs for the kids to come down to dinner.

What’s more, the users can even use the display screen to make video calls to other users of Alexa based devices, via the front facing camera on the Amazon Echo Spot device. The one limitation with the Kids Edition is that it does not accept any drop-ins, calls or messages from Alexa devices outside your home.

We’re sure that some people will be instantly dismayed about Amazon’s move to make its voice assistant accessible to children. Like the original Dot, the Kids Edition has a mute button, and parents can put the device in “sleep mode” to prevent it from responding to commands. That way, their skill, which offered a simple calculator, could keep getting transcripts from Alexa of what users said without them getting any audio cue that the device was still listening.

Can I get these features on an Echo Dot I already own?

Amazon has revealed a sort-of-new Echo device designed for a younger audience. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant further diversified the category with the introduction of a new Echo Dot specifically for children.

But the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition is more about the software features.