The project hopes to make it possible for Alexas to better understand children and provide comfort and encouragement to its owners.
Amazon's "Alexa" could soon have the power to detect sarcasm.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have been given 260 thousand euro to improve the technology, so they can learn more about human's tone of voice and respond accordingly.
The project hopes to make it possible for Alexas to better understand children and provide comfort and encouragement to its owners.