Yacht-to-Dot. With 85-minute skill donation. For everyone who's simply dotting about Alexa. Hey guys, Robin here.
Robin Christopherson. Poor people that have never heard me say my surname. I don't do that very often. So yeah, today we are going to revisit a skill that was mentioned in a weekly newsletter from Amazon and it's been updated with even more sounds.
I got feedback last time we covered this skill a couple hundred episodes ago how hilariously long the list of sound options are. And yeah, it's slightly longer now so we're going to revisit that but it's also been updated because with the premium sound options which by the way, I have no idea about how you can get access to a couple of times ago when I opened it, it said you can unlock and then I stopped it straight away because I thought, ooh, I want to record that message and it hasn't come up since so I don't know how you can unlock but if you open it enough times, you'll probably get that message to offer unlocking the premium features. What are they? Well, you can mix two of the sound effects that you're going to hear in a moment instead of one hour looping because by default the things go on for an hour and then there's a tiny gap apparently and then it loops again.
In the premium you get ten hour loops without any gaps at all and I guess you'll have a tiny little gap at the end of the ten hours but then I'll go back to the beginning because that's what loop means and the sounds are higher fidelity apparently, better quality sounds in the premium option as well. You can ask for a time that you wanted to play for, you can say stop after which we'll do anyway because that's not a premium feature. Okay, let's get the list. Alexa, open Nature Sounds.
Welcome back to Nature Sounds. Which sound would you like? List. I can play thunderstorm, rain, ocean, babbling brook, fireplace, aeroplane, fan, oscillating fan, city, rain forest, train, prickets, frogs, birds, clock, cat, hoover, pink noise, ram noise, white noise, wind, windy leaves, windy trees, rain on a tin roof, rain on a tent, night rain, rain on a window, distant thunderstorm, shower, space deck, hair dryer, clothes dryer, dishwasher, wind chimes, whale, windy meadow, heavy rain, tripping water, fountain, waterfall, forest night, washing machine, heartbeat, cafe, dream, blizzard, owl, underwater, air conditioner, cicadas, ice machine, lake, office, seagulls, womb, crinkling plastic, boat ride, motorway, koki frogs, blues, farm, Tibetan bowls, binaural, distant train, snoring, native American flute, Indian flute, ruborian chant, keyboard, car ride, creaking ship, rowboat, wolves, music box, lullaby, electric shaver, bathtub, draining water, buzzing light, peaceful, piano, India, sailing, park, pipe organ, medieval, guitar, duduk, wind tunnel, flute, ukulele, did you do, cabin, farm, truck engine, electric heater, radiator, lawn mower, panting dog, truck engine, thunder, or a random sound.
Which would you like? Farm. Brilliant stereo. Really wide separation.
Sounds pretty high quality to me. Wow, this is brilliant. So it was pretty good we could have had did a truck engine or something, like a tractor starting up, or a pickup truck or something. So it made you koki frogs the last time I was talking about this.
God, this is so brilliant. I thought it was meant to be croaky frogs. Sorry, Daisy. But it's actually C-O-Q-U-I.
The skill in last for a list, it sends it to your app as well. Now you can honestly stop it after a certain amount of time, which you can read any media, as I'm sure you know. You just say stop after, and you set a sleep time of four. Alexa, stop after 20 seconds.
Okay, I'll stop playing in 20 seconds. I can really enjoy this. No! No!
No! No! There you go. Thanks, guys.
Enjoy. Nature sounds. Not all of them in nature, though, are they? Washing machines and whatnot.
But they're brilliant, I think, anyway. We're signing off. And we will speak again tomorrow. Feedback, comments, demos.
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