Keeping up with the latest information on the current presidential election just got easier if you’re an Amazon Echo owner.
NBC News has created a new “skill” for Alexa, the Echo’s virtual assistant: Now Alexa can read you top election headlines, candidate bios, election calendar events, and even the latest delegate counts.
Let’s see Siri do that, eh?
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Alexa can’t apparently tell you who to vote for, though, instead telling an off-screen voice to “go with your gut,” a rather facile bit of advice indeed.
It’s all enabled via the Amazon Echo, a slick piece of hardware that brings Siri-like functionality to your home via the cloud-based voice service, Alexa, who can answer questions, read audiobooks and the news, report traffic and weather, give info on local businesses, and provide sports scores and schedules. And now, of course, get you election results from NBC News.
If you’ve got an Echo — or a Fire TV — you can enable the NBC News Election skill in the Alexa app.
NBC hopes to roll out new content and features in the skill, like polling data, primary results, and candidate trivia.
