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Synopsis
These short top tips and skills for the Amazon Echo are for everyone whos simply dotty about Alexa.
Episodes
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DTD1321: Workout Coach
09/09/2020 Duration: 03minLoaded with lots of bodyweight-based exercises, today's skill will help you work out if you're a couch potato or a potential fitness coach yourself.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1320: LEGO DUPLO Stories
08/09/2020 Duration: 04minGentle, mildly interactive stories for your toddlers to play along to with their Duplo bricks or similar. Nothing about pictures for those Echos with a screen, but the sounds and stories are great and the focus should be on play anyway.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1319: Mindscape
07/09/2020 Duration: 05minToday's skill can help you get tips on dealing with specific sources of stress, do breathing exercises and unwind with some soothing soundscapes. Looks pretty powerful to me.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1318: State Treasures
06/09/2020 Duration: 03minIt's another escape the room skill with fab sound-effects. See if you can find your way out of the room, the building and the mess you've got yourself into and recover the stolen state treasures.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1317: Free audio books this month and A-lady, read a sci-fi story
05/09/2020 Duration: 03minA few more free books from Audible this month, plus at least one free sci-fi short too. Nice.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1316: Blind Hams Network
04/09/2020 Duration: 03minIf you're a blind ham, then you may well like this skill sent in by first time contributor and all-round star; Georgina Joyce. If you're not, but you do have a forgiving sense of humour, then you may well be able to take meagre consolation from a few jokes I've sprinkled at the start.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1315: Guided Sleep Meditation
03/09/2020 Duration: 03minBoy this one's soporific. I'd like to write more about it, but…Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1314: Temperature Monitor
02/09/2020 Duration: 01minOnce again Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) is back with a fab demo to help us keep our cool under heated circumstances. And don't forget that you can ask the A-lady to convert units, weights, measures,currencies and all other kinds of novel numerical scales to one from another too. Thus I know that 91°F is, in fact, a rather warmish 32.78°C.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1313: Joke Bloke
01/09/2020 Duration: 02minEvery one's a winner in this excellent skill that serves up jokes from national newspaper; the Daily Star.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1312: A-lady, do ASMR
31/08/2020 Duration: 03minThis is either super-creepy or super-tingley depending upon your, er, autonomous sensory meridian response.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1311: Math Challenger
30/08/2020 Duration: 02minWhat two numbers, when multiplied together are 1 and when added together are 2? That's about my level - although I do manage to squeeze out a few harder ones in today's mind-mangling skill.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1310: Wait Wait Quiz
29/08/2020 Duration: 03minHey, Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) is back. She's kindly provided me with this fab quiz demo which means I won't need to wait and wait untill it wends its way to the UK. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1309: SAT Word of the Day
28/08/2020 Duration: 02minThe A-lady here in the UK needs to be sat down and shown how to pronounce 'SAT' correctly - that will 'buttress' her understanding of English acronyms, that's for sure.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1308: Animals Quiz
27/08/2020 Duration: 02minPhillip Chalker's back to bring us a brilliant skill all about animals around the world. Bonza.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1307: Top Trumps Pub Quiz
26/08/2020 Duration: 03minAnother excellent quiz available on the A-lady with tip-top sound-effects. Who doesn't love Top Trumps?? Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1306: Additional - Ode to the amazing A-lady
25/08/2020 Duration: 02minToday my daughter, Faith, faithfully recites the brilliant ditty drafted especially for Dot to Dot by listener William Burrell. Thanks Billy.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1305: Tickle Me and a great A-lady Youtube channel
25/08/2020 Duration: 02minFirst we have a demo from fantastic listener, Rosanna Hostetler, which really tickles me, followed by a plug for the excellent 'Voice Spark Alexa and more' Youtube channel with top tips and demos. Check it out and subscribe at https://bit.ly/32oq5ySFeedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1304: Video Player
24/08/2020 Duration: 02minThis video-playing skill (that also gives you audio for Echos without a screen) serves up mostly Spanish but some English and French TV channels - 67 in all. Don't forget, there's also the excellent Stream Player skill too. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1303: Lucky Charms Magical Mission
23/08/2020 Duration: 02minLucky the leprechaun needs our help to bring back the magic. Are you less than, say, 8 years of age and extremely plucky? Good, then let's go.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com
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DTD1302: Potter Letters (not really revisited)
22/08/2020 Duration: 03minToday we're taking another look at the excellent Potter Letters skill from Drew Cosgrove (animal.letters@gmail.com and @DrewCosgrove on the Twitters) who, for whatever reason, has renamed his skill thus from the original 'Harry Potter Letters'. Still as magical as ever, though.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com