How to get Â鶹ԼÅÄ News on smart speakers
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How to get Â鶹ԼÅÄ News on smart speakers
Having a smart speaker means you can get Â鶹ԼÅÄ News whenever you want by asking your device to: "Play Â鶹ԼÅÄ News".
The service works on:
Amazon Alexa
Google Assistant and
Apple Siri
The Â鶹ԼÅÄ does not charge you to access smart speaker content and offers its services without cost to all UK smart speaker platforms.
On Amazon Alexa:
If you are using Amazon Alexa then you'll have access to more features.
When you link your Â鶹ԼÅÄ account to the skill, you can get local news, sport, and weather as part of your news update. You'll then be able to jump back and forward through local news and weather when you say: "Alexa, next" or "Alexa, previous".
You'll also be able to pause and pick up where you left off when you say: "Alexa, pause" and "Alexa, resume".
Adding local news and weather to your Amazon Alexa bulletin:
You can add a roundup of the news, sport, and weather where you are, to your news bulletin by linking the Â鶹ԼÅÄ News skill to your Â鶹ԼÅÄ account.
You can set this up now by . Or you can listen out for the message inviting you to sign in at the start of the news update.
And to make sure you're hearing news from your chosen postcode area
Local and national news services:
You can also access Â鶹ԼÅÄ local news directly from more than 40 stations across England, as well as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's national services for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Find more information here.
Amazon Alexa Routines:
These are a collection of different tasks you can trigger by saying one word. For example, you could wake up at the same time each morning to the latest news bulletin, your local news and weather update or your favourite Â鶹ԼÅÄ radio station.
Â鶹ԼÅÄ news services can be added to any Amazon Alexa routine you choose to create.