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Originally Posted by mewmartigan
I find the "alexa" rumors hard to believe. Either you'd need a dedicated button to activate her or she's always listening which would eat up an e-ink device battery. You'd also need a speaker unless you can only hear her through Bluetooth and headphones? In which case she is a limited function that would then only work in limited situations? That is a whole lot of effort for a silly bullet point.
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Amazon released several devices recently that can be controlled by Alexa without actually having Alexa voice interfaces built in. With that you could select a book by name, open it, turn pages, lookup words and characters, and perform other actions by interacting with an Echo device elsewhere in the room.
That would be of benefit to those with mobility and fine motor control problems. It would also be a gateway to allowing control of the Kindle using other trigger devices, such as a foot pedal to turn pages.