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The Flash Briefing skills are one of the more compelling and under-appreciated features Amazon Alexa. The Flash Briefing Skill API is a relatively new addition to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). The API enables developers to add their feeds to the Alexa Flash Briefing, which delivers pre-recorded audio clips and text-to-speech (TTS) updates to customers.
UK News Flash Briefing Skill: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072JSPTRD/
This project shows the power of using the Flash Briefing Skill API to create a custom RSS feed using Twitter channels as the source. Using a tool like queryfeed.net, you can create an RSS feed from a social media channel. The tool also allows you to filter the feed to ensure a clean briefing.
For instance, the following URL from queryfeed.net removes any retweets, links, images, videos, and tweets with mentions. After creating the query string, you can enter this URL into the Flash Briefing Skill API and create your your own flash briefing using a social media channel as the source!
https://queryfeed.net/twitter?q=from%3A%40swardley++-filter%3Alinks+-Filter%3Aimages+-Filter%3Avideos+-filter%3Amentions+&title-type=user-name-full&geocode=&omit-direct=on&omit-retweets=on
The Amazon team makes it so easy to develop Alexa skills ... they only thing you need is imagination!
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