I get
my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.
The first is to add CNBC to
your Flash Briefing to get updates whenever you ask Alexa for the news.
From the navigation panel on the left, select «settings,» then «
flash briefing,» then «get more
flash briefing content.»
By keeping the light
flash brief and the light extra dim, the scientists ensured that just some molecules activate.
Start your outfit with a dash of color with
our Flash brief.
It can act as a smart alarm clock that can also turn your lights on and off, watch a video
flash briefing, show your commute time, get the weather, or show your calendar.
Since I have some time off from work to write, it's Easter Vacation / Spring Break this week, I am sharing my thoughts in this blog post in addition to my podcast which you can hear by clicking below (if you have the Amazon device, just ask Alexa to «Play
My Flash Briefing Inspiring Adventures Word of the Week!»)
Call or message your family and friends that also have an Echo or the Alexa App, get the news with a video
flash briefing, see your Prime Photos, shop with your voice, see lyrics with Amazon Music, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and more.
Alexa can pull up
your Flash Briefing, Wikipedia articles, news, sports scores and more.
Every once in a while, I like to take a closer look at an event that comes up in our «This Day in History» archive, which gets posted daily on Facebook, Twitter, and is now available as an Amazon
Flash Briefing.
I test out the «
Flash Briefing,» a daily news report.
I'm still playing with recipes on IFTTT when Amazon announces you can now re-order items from past purchases (meh), and right after that it adds additional news sources like NPR and The Economist to
its Flash Briefing.
To get started with Storyline, you sign up for an account, then click which type of skill you want to build — either
a Flash Briefing or custom skill.
The software itself is designed to be very simple, and can be used to create either a custom skill or
a Flash Briefing.
But it will next week launch its first premium feature focused on scheduling posts in
Flash Briefings.
For news and information you can see and hear, just ask Alexa for your video
flash briefing from CNN, Bloomberg, and more.
Call or message your family and friends that also have an Echo or the Alexa App, get the news with a video
flash briefing, see your Prime Photos, shop with your voice, see lyrics with Amazon Music, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and more.
If you ask Alexa what's going on today, you can hear your personalized «
flash briefing» that contains information like the local weather forecast, local news highlights, what's on your calendar and other quick tidbits of things Alexa already knows you're interested in.
These skills provide original content for customers»
flash briefings.
The basic version of the platform is free to use, with a pro tier offering technical support and the ability to schedule posts for «
flash briefing» skills.
From the navigation panel on the left, select «settings,» then «
flash briefing,» then «get more
flash briefing content.»
With Echo Show, customers can watch video
flash briefings, see music lyrics, smart home cameras, photos, weather forecasts, to - do and shopping lists, and more.
When you configure your compatible RSS feed and build skills that connect directly to
Flash Briefing, customers will be able to easily access your content via the Alexa
Flash Briefing, which delivers pre-recorded audio clips and text - to - speech (TTS) updates.
Now you can say, «Alexa, what's
my flash briefing?»
The availability of
Flash Briefing skills in local languages means that you can now deliver truly localized content to customers via voice.
With
the Flash Briefing Skill API, you no longer need to build a voice interaction model to handle customer requests for the news.
Here are a few ideas to get started with
Flash Briefing skills:
In its analysis, the site notes that 20 % of those skills are «
flash briefings» — audio roundups from news sites.
Since then, we have seen a steady increase in the number of
flash briefing skill submissions.
Last year, we introduced
the Flash Briefing Skill API in October 2016 to enable you to add content feeds to flash briefing on Alexa in the form of pre-recorded audio and text - to - speech (TTS).
Your AVS device can now converse in German, get
a Flash Briefing from Sky Sports, or call for an Uber in London.
Alexa will capably give you a weather forecast, read your customized news -
flash briefing (you can choose from over 2,000 news and information sources), tell you jokes, help you with math problems, add events to your Google or Outlook calendar (and read them back to you on request), and handle a host of other simple requests.
For instance, if you ask for the news, Alexa will not play
a flash briefing you have already heard.
The settings page on the Alexa companion app will let you add or remove sources until you have
a flash briefing tailored to your liking.
Digiday's Lucinda Southern reports that CNBC plans to sell ads in 2018 to monetize its Alexa
flash briefing audience.
• Weather - You can ask Alexa for the weather forecast, or when you listen to
the Flash Briefing she will give you a weather update.
By default, asking Alexa for a «
flash briefing» runs you through the top news stories from a few handpicked sources.
With that, she can automatically use your own Amazon shopping account when you order something by voice, pull up your own news preferences for
Flash Briefings, and use your own contacts for voice calls and messages.
Use 2nd generation far - field voice recognition to watch video
flash briefings, see music lyrics, weather forecasts, to - do and shopping lists, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and more.
Alexa will read it all out when you ask «Alexa, what's
my Flash Briefing?»
• News
Flash Briefing - Allows you to choose which news sources you want news from and will play their news podcast.
Streaming music, streaming radio, podcast, and
flash briefing skills may include audio advertisements as long as (1) the advertisements do not use Alexa's voice or a similar voice, refer to Alexa, or imitate Alexa interactions and (2) the skill does not include more or materially different advertising than is included when the same or similar content is made available outside of Alexa.
The Flash Briefing Skill API defines the words users say to invoke
the flash briefing or news request (utterances) and the format of the content so that Alexa can provide it to the customer.
When you create audio content for Alexa, whether for
a Flash Briefing feed or for use with a custom skill, it's important that your audio content plays at a consistent loudness level as Alexa's voice.
Spend a little time configuring things, however, and
your Flash Briefing could be a whole lot more useful.
Just ask to see the weather, get the news with a video
flash briefing, set an alarm, see lyrics with Amazon Music, see your calendar, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and more.
For
a Flash Briefing skill, you must list the feeds for the skill.
All voice interactions with the user are handled by
the Flash Briefing Skill API.
Amazon calls its customized reports «
Flash Briefings» and, out of the box, they include a fairly wide - ranging array of sources and topics.
Alexa uses the pre-built interaction model for content requests to invoke
the flash briefing feature.