Tech Elf works for you to find tech stories which he thinks are relevant to your interests. See this video for a full demo https://youtu.be/Ebrl-hKGOGY
You need to enable the skill in the Alexa app and then you can optionally change the Tech topics which most interest you. Even if you don't change the weightings of the topics there, Tech Elf will learn what interests you be seeing which stories you actually read (read corresponds to stories sent to your phone or PC), and gives small negative weighting to those you only partially listen too.
We take a different view to the voice user experience. We believe users should have as few choices as possible and will perform personalisation through machine learning (Elf has a second artificial brain). In this way you are given stories one at a time. You can interrupt Elf talking by saying "Alexa, next story" if its clear its not relevant. If you "add to basket" the story is kept so it can later be sent to your phone. Then use "send basket" to send the basket to your phone.
The system uses RSS feeds from BBC, MIT Tech Review, Wired, CNET, Tech Advisor, Tech Republic, Tech Radar, Ars Technica, Techcrunch,Venture Beat, CNBC, Reuters, ZDNet, WSJ, and TechTimes. Each story is attributed to each publisher. The full story at the publishers url can be read on your phone if you add stories to basket and send to your phone.
You can interrupt Alexa so you can quickly go to a next story by saying "Alexa, next" - this also implies the story being listened to is less of interest.
Tech Elf also has a search mode which turns off Elf's artificial brain and enables search on a single topic or a content source. So if you say "search for stories about A.I.", Elf will only consider stories about that single topic (A.I. in this case). Alternatively you can search a single content source, eg "search for stories from the BBC". It will continue providing those stories when you say "next story". To switch back to Elf's Artificial brain and all topics weighted according to your usage, say, "Make elf clever".
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