Users can ask Alexa when the next MBTA bus would arrive using the stop id. You can find your stop ID at https://mbtasearch.herokuapp.com/ or from the bus stop sign. This is an opensource project on https://github.com/sajingeo/askMBTA
Credits: Melvin
Example Interaction:
User: “Alexa, open Boston T. Time”
Alexa : “Welcome to the Boston T-time app Please tell me your stop I D, and route number For example my stop ID is one four one nine and route number is sixty nine”.
User: “my stop id is one four one nine.”
Alexa: “One four one nine is saved as your preferred stop. "
User: “When is the next sixty nine bus?”
Alexa: “The next bus 69 bus will arrive at stop one thousand one hundred and forty nine in 5 minutes "
User: “my stop id is one four one nine and bus number is sixty nine”.
Alexa: “The next bus 69 bus towards Harvard, will arrive in 5 minutes".
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