Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1351
Hello, Hello. Happy Halloween 2021. Teri here. It’s October 31. Today we normally take questions from the community, but in this case, I’m going to provide the question and I’m going to give the answer too to help make your Halloween a little bit more spooky.
And the question is, “How can we use Alexa to enhance our Halloween.” I’ve got three or four different ideas for you today.
The first one is, if you’re searching for a haunted house, you can use Alexa to help you find one. Just simply say, “Alexa, find haunted houses near me.”
And she will do that. She’ll tell you some of the closeby haunted houses. Another thing that you can do is you can say, “Alexa, give me a Halloween hack.”
If you do this a couple of times, she can give you some little tips and tricks on how you can have some fun on Halloween. Finally, here’s kind of a neat one.
You can set up a routine. And as you may know, routines are things where you can say one command, and then a whole bunch of things kick off.
So you can be really creative with this.
You could have some particular sounds that play when you give a routine command
Some of the things that you can do for Halloween specifically are you could have some particular sounds that play when you give a routine command, you could have some lights that do some type of effect, whether it’s flash, orange lights, or dim orange lights, or whatever the case may be, right?
You get to choose that. You could even have the enabled trigger a game or trigger treats, skills, or that sort of thing.
So, you can be really, really creative there. So, there are a couple of ideas for you. I hope you have a wonderful and spooky Halloween.
By the way, if you want to catch all the other commands (The Halloween commands that we talked about yesterday), you can always go to the website at VoiceinCanada.ca and you can see all the previous flash briefings there, and just look for the one from yesterday. Alright?
So again, Happy Halloween 2021, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Be safe. Have fun.
Other Useful Resources
- List of Voice Assistant Commands
- Alexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in Canada
- Teri Fisher on Twitter
- Alexa in Canada on Twitter
- Alexa in Canada on Instagram
- Alexa in Canada Community Group on Facebook
- Please leave a review on the Skills Store!
- Shopping on Amazon.ca
- Create a Flash Briefing Tutorial – Free Tutorial to Create your own Flash Briefing
- Flash Briefing Formula – Your Complete Premium Step-By-Step Course to Launch a Successful Flash Briefing that Gets Found and Grows Your Brand
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