Amazon Aims to Boost Echo Sales by Targeting Bored Children
- New skills for Alexa encourage good manners, teach science
- Skills build on $3 monthly membership that includes books
The Battle of the Voice-Activated Assistants
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If you thought Jeff Bezos’s ambition of delivering packages via drones was ambitious, now he’s really outdone himself. Amazon.com Inc. is promising to entertain bored children with a device that spits out knock-knock jokes on demand. It’ll teach them good manners, too.
The world’s biggest online retailer will release new kid-focused skills for its Alexa digital assistant on May 9, along with an $80 Echo Dot voice-controlled speaker designed for children.