Announcement of the launch of Hello EDION a skill compatible with Amazon Alexa

2017.12.20

From December 20, 2017 (Wednesday), we will provide Amazon-based cloud-based voice service "Amazon Alexa (hereinafter Alexa)" (* 1) We will start providing "Hello EDION " skill that supports.

"Hello EDION " is Amazon Echo (* 2) It is a service that collects the information you want to know about the day, such as news and weather, through voice, through Alexa-compatible products such as.

Hello EDION Overview

Hello EDION Overview

Simply tell Amazon Echo "Alexa, open EDION " and you'll get four news items, "News", "Weather", "Today's Fortune", and "What is Today". Each content can be set in detail. This allows you to get your favorite news while dressing up, divulge today's fortunes, and smartly deliver the right information for you.

Details of each content

news

You can set the genre of the news you want to know from eight genres such as politics, entertainment, sports, etc., and you can know only the news that you care about.

weather

By setting a zip code, you can know the weather conditions and forecasts in your area or your work area.

Today's fortune

By setting your date of birth, you will be able to know the fortunes of the day, such as luck, job luck, ranking, etc. by constellation.

What day is it today

Find out what happened in the past of the day.

the next deployment

We will also offer EDION bargain information and recommended products.

Inquiries about Hello EDION

For details of the service, please check the special website below.

* 1: Alexa – the brain that supports Amazon Echo
Alexa, the brain behind Amazon Echo, is built on the cloud and is constantly evolving and smarter. Simply speaking to Alexa can be useful in a variety of everyday situations, such as playing music, reading news and schedules, setting timers and alarms, and checking sports results such as professional baseball and sumo wrestling. With Echo's remote voice control technology, you can do all of this, from anywhere in the room, simply by speaking.

* 2: Amazon Echo – available hands-free, ready to wait, react immediately
Echo is voice-activated, always available hands-free and always responsive. Alexa responds immediately when customers call in from different parts of the room and ask for information, music playback, news, weather and more. Echo uses remote speech recognition technology and a seven-microphone array to clearly hear sounds emitted from various places in the room. In addition, advanced beamforming technology that combines the signals of each microphone suppresses noise, reverberation, and even speech other than voice instructions. Echo's advanced audio design combines a dedicated tweeter with a 2.5-inch downfire woofer, and uses Dolby processing for crisp vocals and dynamic bass response throughout the room.