Alexa
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Farewell Tasks for Alexa
Just over four years ago I released a free Alexa skill to synchronise your Microsoft To-do list with Alexa’s own lists. Sadly any effort to create an add-on for another product usually ends in either the product getting “sherlocked” or… Continue reading
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Tasks for Alexa Refreshed
Unfortunately for the past couple of weeks the Alexa skill to synchronise Microsoft To Do with Alexa lists has been limping along due to a mix up with my Azure subscription taking the Azure Function which serves the skill offline.… Continue reading
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Alexa Skill with Azure Functions – Messaging
In the previous Alexa post I talked about building a List skill to integrate with a third-party list provider. This gives you a mechanism to react to changes in Alexa’s lists and write them to your external provider, but what… Continue reading
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Alexa List Skills with Azure Functions
When I was building my Microsoft To-do Alexa skill I found Matteo’s series of blog posts on Alexa + Azure very useful. However I needed to go beyond the functionality described there and knew I’d need to delve deeper into… Continue reading
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Talking About Tasks
Back in 2010 Microsoft released Windows Phone 7. It was a huge change from the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile OS which had preceded it and while it brought a modern UI and app-store infrastructure it missed a number of pieces of… Continue reading
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Family Calendar with Amazon Echo
Update 15th February 2017 Alexa can now be paired with an Outlook.com account which means you no longer have to use this workaround. We’ve used the “Family Room” feature from Windows Phone and although it’s been discontinued the shared… Continue reading
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