Amazon Alexa can now help teach English and te reo Māori, thanks to a new voice-activated Alexa skill.The free Alexa skill has been created under the Perpetual Guardian Foundation with a grant from the Shifted Perspectives fund, which received seed funding from the legacy of Alice and Stan Flavell.
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