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EPISODE · Aug 29, 2023 · 3 MIN

DTD2404: Good news from the A-lady

from Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

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Dot to Dot, with 85 minutes filled out of show. For everyone who simply dotting it out, Alexa. Hey guys, Robyn here. Okay, according to a recent newsletter, the Voice Brew newsletter, which is, I think, really good.

In the US, you can actually add this to your news briefing, but it's called Good News. Tell me some good news. Let's see, it's in action first. Alexa, tell me some good news.

Here's some good news. According to the Metro, a baby who was given a 1% chance of survival is now a cheerful 9 months old. Pregnant mum-am was urged to abort her son Chester when her waters broke for 20 weeks. Just 10 weeks later, baby Chester was born via emergency C-section on December 23rd, weighing 1 pound 8 ounces, less than a bag of sugar.

However, Chester defied the odds and is now at home with his older brothers. Anne says, he's just starting to develop a personality now, and he's always smiling, even after everything he's gone through. Cool, very cool. Now, it was the same one when I asked her a moment ago, so maybe it's just one a day.

I don't know when it changes, but you can certainly add it to your flash briefing, where if you go into the A-Lady app, go to more at the bottom, go down to news, and in there you've got different news sources, BBC News, Sky News, whatever it might be, and good news should be there in the US, not here in the UK. But we can always just ask her for some good news. Now, the same newsletter said that if you ask her for something good, then she will give you a fun but informative fact. Alexa, tell me something good.

Some things I say are funny, and some things I say are useful. To hear some of the things I can say, just ask, what can you say? Okay, which we could ask that now. But anyway, there you go.

Just going to finish off by flagging that I had some listener feedback about the three skills from the same developer that I did recently. That was Desolate, Dungeon Roll Game, and Deep Space Dice. And basically, I hadn't explored them enough to give people an idea of how they play really well, which I had no doubt at all that they would. I just wasn't getting it myself.

So yes, they are very involved. But for people that like to play those kind of forward-stroke card games, give them a go. Those three, Desolate, Dungeon Roll Game, and Deep Space Dice, well worth a second look, regardless of my poor demos earlier this week. Cool.

This is Robin signing off, and we'll see you again tomorrow. Feedback, comments, demos. The dot-to-dot podcast at gmail.com. Recast.fm.

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