Amazon Echo and Dot owners can now access the latest local news and weather from the News4Jax anchor team.
If you've got one of the Amazon devices with the voice-command system known as Alexa, you simply enable the News4Jax news and weather "skills" -- that's Amazon’s word for an Alexa voice app -- on the setup screen of your smartphone that controls what you want available on your Echo or Dot.
Once enabled, say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" and it starts playing.
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If you're new to Alexa and want more detailed instructions:
Go to settings in your Alexa app> Flash Briefing.
Click Get more Flash Briefing content.
Scroll or search for a feed (i.e. News4Jax that you want to add. You can also sort by relevance, average rating or date added.
Click on the link for the feed and click Enable Skill to add it to your Flash Briefing.
Or...
Go to Skills.
Click the Categories button to the left of the search bar and select News. Alternatively, you can search for "flash briefing" in the search bar. Just look for the "Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?" invocation, which will be listed below the name of the skill.
Click on the name of a skill and select Enable Skill to activate it.
To change the order in which they are played, in the Amazon Alexa app or at alexa.amazon.com:
Go to Settings > Flash Briefing and click Edit Order in the top right corner.
Click the hamburger button to the right of a feed, drag it to the position you want it to play in your Flash Briefing and drop it. When you're finished rearranging feeds, click Done in the upper right corner.