Carousel guide shares content to complement personal and vocational development. The vision of carousel guide is to assist users growth their knowledge, thinking strategies, awareness and self confidence. User selects which topic(s) to listen based on the options Alexa presents at the time. The skill requires capabilities to enable Alexa
Carousel guide shares briefs on in the following topic 10 categories: 1) Language: it can be on English grammar, linguistics, vocabulary, writing or other language related topic 2) Food; it can be any subject related to food, for example a brief recipe, a tip, a good practice for cooking and/or baking, healthy eating, facts about food. 3) Beauty: it can be any subject with the goal of encouraging positive thoughts 4) Story: it can be a narrative based on factual history, imagination, and/or creativity 5) Play: can include strategies, game rules, and facts to encourage strategic thinking 6) History, can be facts, briefs on history primarily of United States 7) Geography (facts, briefs related to geography 8) Life fact, it can be any topic associated with nature, life and environment; life, health sciences and biology 9) Thought: content to encourage reflection 10) Numbers: includes practical applications of numbers in math, geometry, financial, or arithmetic calculations; it also provides a brief explanation of the process to arrive to the results.
How the skill works: The user selects the topic(s) he or she wants to listen once Alexa presents him/her with the topics available for selection .
User can invoke the skills with one of the following Utterances: Alexa begin carousel guide Alexa open carousel guide Alexa load carousel guide Alexa play carousel guide Alexa launch carousel guide Alexa start carousel guide Alexa resume carousel guide
Based on the tests performed, the skill invocation also works without including “Alexa” at the beginning ( in earlier trials it appears that the skill may not follow the same command from time to time but as today it follows them without including Alexa at the beginning of the prompt from the user. To select the topic user may say: Carousel guide history Carousel guide story Carousel guide language Carousel guide food Carousel guide beauty Carousel guide numbers Carousel guide life fact Carousel guide play Carousel guide geography Carousel guide thought
Based on Alexa's key commands available (begin, start, tell, play, start..) User may select the topic once Carousel guide launches.
Respect utterances below are some of the 24 set at this time.
Note: in the first example below {Carousel guide selection topics available} refers to one of the 10 topics Carousel guide offers for selection. teach me {Carousel guide slot} where {Carousel guide selection topics available} may be either of the 10 topics Carousel guide offers (food, numbers...).
For practical purpose in the listed utterance examples below will use S as abbreviation of {Carousel guide selection topics available}
mentor me with S can you give me S can you give me a S I want to learn about S I want to learn about a S now I want S now S lets try S give me S
The following invocations work without listing them as utterances: Carousel guide tell me about geography Carousel guide tell me a story Carousel guide tell me about history Carousel guide tell me about beauty Carousel guide tell me a thought Carousel guide tell me about numbers Carousel guide tell me life fact Carousel guide tell me about language
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