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Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#41

Post by ncouture » Fri, May 04, 2018, 2:55 AM UTC

This sounds interesting. Is there a reason it is limited to Alexa users?

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#42

Post by marblar » Fri, May 04, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

"I'm having trouble accessing your hacker news skill right now."

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#43

Post by adrianbg » Sat, May 05, 2018, 12:38 AM UTC

marblar wrote: post #42

"I'm having trouble accessing your hacker news skill right now."

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?

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#44

Post by adrianbg » Sat, May 05, 2018, 12:39 AM UTC

ncouture wrote: post #41

This sounds interesting. Is there a reason it is limited to Alexa users?

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

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#45

Post by adrianbg » Sat, May 05, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

djangowithme wrote: post #33

adrianbg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Canada

Should be working now.

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#46

Post by adrianbg » Sat, May 05, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

binoyxj wrote: post #39

adrianbg wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Make it available in India. I'd like to test and provide feedback.

It should be working now.

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#47

Post by adrianbg » Sat, May 05, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

walshemj wrote: post #21

Interesting it looks like the uk and us versions of amazon have different skills availible

It should be working in the UK now.

Re: Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

#48

Post by ncouture » Sun, May 06, 2018, 2:48 PM UTC

adrianbg wrote: post #44

ncouture wrote: post #41

This sounds interesting. Is there a reason it is limited to Alexa users?

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

Any; from my experience developing voice UIs using Google products and APIs I figured it was a very good thing to segregate the application logic from its integration with select platform(s) like Google Actions, Alexa skill, Android Things, a standalone device, or one of many 3rd party chat application like Facebook Messenger or Hangouts Chat...

There are so many options it seems like the right thing to do is to release on those your potential users have access to.