Flash briefings are a subset of Amazon Alexa skills (skills are essentially "apps" for your Amazon smart speaker). They are audio pieces that are usually topical and ephemeral, and almost always short — just a minute or two in duration. They can be very newsy, like those from ESPN and CNN.
Likewise, how do I get Flash briefing on Alexa?
Set Up Flash Briefings for Alexa
- Open the Alexa app .
- Go to the settings menu .
- Select Settings.
- Select Flash Briefing.
- Select the toggle next to each news service you want to add to your Flash Briefing.
Subsequently, question is, how do I create a flash briefing? Create a flash briefing skill
- Log in to the developer console.
- Choose Create Skill.
- For Skill name, type the name for your skill that appears to customers in the Alexa App.
- For Default language, choose the language for your skill.
- Select the Flash Briefing pre-built model then and then choose Create skill.
Herein, how do I stop Flash briefing Alexa?
The Flash Briefing is one of the more compelling features of Amazon's Alexa speakers.
To simply toggle the feed off:
- Click on Settings in the navigation pane to the left.
- Select Flash Briefing.
- Click the toggle switch to the right of each feed you want to disable.
How do I get Alexa to tell me news?
To listen to the flash briefings you added to your list, just say “Alexa, play my flash briefing” or “Alexa, turn on the news.” So if you added Today's Forecast and Reuters as your flash briefings, you'd hear the day's 2-3 minute Today's Forecast flash briefing directly followed by the Reuters flash briefing.
