Amazon Alexa - enabled devices are getting a more organized news briefing experience from CNBC, following the broadcaster's announcement that it would be adding newer than four
new Flash Briefings for the platform.
To configure
a new Flash Briefing skill, you need an account on the Amazon Developer Console.
Not exact matches
The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags
flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their
new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at
briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.
Save for a
brief flash of independence under the courageous Maccabees they were never again to be a free people — at least not until, after nearly two thousand years of dispersion, they established the
new state of Israel in 1948.
To compile the
new map, the scientists used two satellite - based detectors capable of picking up on
brief lightning
flashes even during daylight.
Joanna has, apparently, turned over a
new leaf and is now the soul of human kindness and generosity — but looks she shoots Marni's way in
brief flashes would suggest otherwise.
Both
new models incorporate a trick used on the
new Nook Touch: it only refreshes the e-Ink screen (which causes a
brief black - on - white
flash) every 6 page turns instead of each time.
While it's generally great for reading, the downside is that updates aren't very fast, and sometimes result in a
brief flash as the whole screen goes black before the
new image appears.
Amazon Echo can also provide a customized «
Flash News
Briefing» with updates from a large number of sources and read the latest
new headlines to you.
The Echo Show is the first in the Echo family to add a touchscreen and camera to the smart speaker, allowing you to make video calls, view security camera feeds, watch Amazon Prime Video and
new video
flash briefings, buy things off Amazon (of course), and more.
New arrivals to the top 10 in recent weeks include Ditty, Curiosity, This Day in History, and occasional appearances from the Fox News
flash briefing.
The
new policy appears to explicitly allow advertising for streaming music, radio and
flash briefing skills while prohibiting custom Alexa skill from the same opportunities.
These simple information skills could have contributed to Germany remaining consistent, as almost half of all the
new skills from this month were
Flash Briefings.
Whenever you add
new feeds, they will jump to the top of the existing feeds in your
Flash Briefing settings page.
When Amazon added the
flash briefing skill API to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), CNN created a
flash briefing skill of its own to deliver CNN's top
new stories of the day.
The only exception it carved out to this
new rule was for streaming music, radio and
flash briefing Skills (news
briefings) where advertisements were not the core functionality.
In addition, of the 1,300 developers on VoiceLabs» platform, many of those planning to use Sponsored Messages are creating
flash briefings, which are not affected by the
new policy.
It integrates with the
Flash Briefing to provide you a
new word every day, including the definition and how to use the word in a sentence, with more than a little humor thrown into the mix.
With the
Flash Briefing Skill API, you tap into standardized Amazon language models so you don't need to build a
new user experience for voice.
The
Flash Briefing Skill API is a
new addition to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) that enables developers to add their feeds to the Alexa
Flash Briefing, which delivers pre-recorded audio clips and text - to - speech (TTS) updates to customers.
«Alexa, play my
flash briefing» or «Alexa, what's
new?»
Various businesses have partnered with Amazon and Google to provide a subset of skills or capabilities within the smart home toolbox, allowing consumers to access
flash briefings from Fox News or The
New York Times, as well as play Jeopardy and turn down the thermostat through voice activation.