It’s possible to use an Amazon Alexa device (e.g. an Amazon Echo smart speaker) to listen to our Podcast. There are three different ways to listen:
- Via TuneIn’s podcast & internet radio service;
- Via the BWBF Talking Newspapers skill.
To use TuneIn with Amazon Alexa, you don’t need to install or enable anything beforehand – it’s built-in to Alexa. All you need to do to start listening is to say:
Alexa, play the podcast FATN Talking News
If Alexa doesn’t understand this, you can start the podcast with the following phrase instead:
Alexa, play FATN Talking News from TuneIn
You can use the following commands while the podcast’s playing:
Alexa, pause
Alexa, resume
Alexa, restart
To pause, resume or restart playback
Alexa, next episode
Alexa, previous episode
To jump to the next or previous episode
Alexa, fast forward two minutes
Alexa, rewind one minute
To skip forward or back by a set number of miuntes
Please refer to Amazon’s Alexa Podcast help page for more information.
You can also listen to our editions on TuneIn here:
The BWBF Talking Newspapers Skill allows your Alexa device to play our BWBF-hosted editions, using simple and intuitive voice commands. The first step is to add BWBF’s Skill to Alexa by saying:
Alexa, enable Talking Newspaper
To start using the BWBF Skill, say:
Alexa, open Talking Newspaper
Alexa will then ask you for the name of the Talking Newspaper that you want to listen to. Say one of the following:
FATN Alton
FATN Farnham
FATN Fleet
FATN Haslemere
FATN Monthly Magazine
Alexa then says the name of the edition that it thinks you’ve requested. Say “Yes” to confirm, and the recording starts playing from the beginning.
Other useful commands:
Alexa, ask talking newspaper for FATN Alton
To start the BWBF Skill and play the Alton edition immediately
Alexa, next track
Alexa, previous track
To move between tracks during playback