News Feed Adds Interactive Audio Feeds to Amazon Echo
By default, Amazon Echo can deliver news reports on demand, but its capabilities are slightly limited if you want to hear the latest news from multiple sources on specific topics. With Audioburst’s News Feed, you can hear snippets of audio from various news outlets via Alexa for a lively news feed.
The technological goal of Audioburst is to make audio searchable by transcribing it in real time. With News Feed, they use this technology to deliver a range of news reports to Alexa on any topic. For example, if you ask about the results of a basketball game, you’ll hear snippets of real news, rather than a simple summary delivered in Alexa’s friendly but robotic voice. You can see several comparisons in the demo below:
The News Feed is free and you can enable it on your Alexa devices here on Amazon or in the Alexa app.