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It should be working in the UK now.

It should be working now.

Should be working now.

Only that that's all I've had time to do so far. What alternative did you have in mind?

Thanks for trying it. I don't see any errors from today on my end. Would you mind emailing me at adrian@patter.io to debug?

India, Canada, the UK, and other English-speaking countries are in Amazon's review process. Should be working in another day or two.

I ranted about this in the unofficial Alexa Slack team and the people there gave some plausible (but unsatisfying) reasons why it works like that. I'm not a huge fan of Amazon thou…

Made a new version and submitted it for review. If all goes well, it should be working in a day or two. Let me know how it goes.

I.... don't know. But I doubt it :)

Oh man, def not intentional. I'm Canadian too.

Hmm sorry. Where abouts are you? I didn't intentionally put on any restrictions.

Google's speech recognition is supposed to be much better, though not sure if they'd allow "one intent to rule them all" like you want. For free-form speech recognition in Alexa, t…

I find Amazon's products often have bizarre constraints like that. They seem to do well anyway though :/ Thanks for your comments! I wonder if I can create some kind of personalize…

My guess would be that they have separate speech recognition / synthesis models. Sorry, I should try and get this thing out to other countries too.

Yeah, I don't think it's intended to be interactive. More like a really quick curated news update.

It's closed source. Sorry. I've thought about things like trying to crowdsource the summaries, since people sometimes write "tl;dr" comments on posts.

Sometimes I wish it didn't. They don't give you the original audio, any kind of confidence score, or even alternative hypotheses. It's really a pretty rigid platform. A lot of thin…

Yeah.. turns out that's actually a friend of a friend. I'm curious to see what people prefer for obvious reasons :). The advantages of my approach are personalization, interactivit…

Thanks!

Alexa does most of the hard stuff: speech recognition / intent detection, and speech synthesis. My back end is a simple Python service on GCP that handles HTTP requests from Alexa.…

Yeah, RSS feeds are definitely on my mind as well.

SF

Thanks! Right now I'm using this: https://rapidapi.com/textanalysis/api/Text%20Summarization but may switch to a more expensive one and may supplement with manual edits.

I've made a Hacker News skill for Alexa so people can get tech news while driving, cooking, or cleaning. The first version lists post titles and summarizes articles: https://www.am…

There are a few out there, but none with many reviews. Has anyone spent enough time playing with them to have opinions on them?