Echo Dot Kids (5th generation, 2022 release) | Wi-Fi and Bluetooth smart speaker with Alexa | Designed for kids, with parental controls | Owl

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Alexa has also come in really useful for things like asking the weather, dropping in on my daughter to tell her to come down for tea and asking Alexa to tell us a random fact! And the Echo dot kids claims to teach kids manners too, thanks to the Magic Word feature – Alexa offers praise when kids say please. What's more, this smart speaker comes with a pleasant feature that surprised us - it can read the temperature of the room it's in. If you want to take manual control, the Parent Dashboard lets you pause all of a child’s devices, including the Echo Dot Kids.

With a choice of a cute Tiger or Panda, excellent parental controls, a free year’s subscription to Kids+ and some genuinely fun responses, this Echo speaker is a safe way for your children to interact with Alexa.You can lock them down to turn off at set times so we know for sure she can’t listen to it all night. Starting life on the consumer PC press back in 1998, David has been at the forefront of technology for the past 20 years. The new speaker also has a two-year guarantee that will result in a “no questions asked” replacement if anything happens to the device.

They say it's amazing for kids, a fun little gadget, and a good product for older kids and their parents. Cover for anything that happens to your Echo Dot Kids device including electrical and mechanical breakdowns. This would have been a great hit had our tester actually needed an alarm clock (where are these kids who need alarm clocks; don’t they all wake up at 6. These games and skills are pretty decent – although some of the voices are slightly robotic sounding. These are all accessed via the Alexa smartphone app, so it's very easy to keep track of what your child is up to when using the smart speaker.

In 2019, a coalition of child protection and privacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking it to investigate the Echo Dot Kids. This is great if your kid just needs an answer innocently, but less helpful if they’re meant to be working out maths themselves. Sure, the new version does sound slightly better thanks to its new design, but that design comes with some real compromises in where you can put the new Dot.