Keeping up with the latest information on the current presidential election just got easier if you’re an Amazon Echo owner.

NBC News has created a new “skill” for Alexa, the Echo’s virtual assistant: Now Alexa can read you top election headlines, candidate bios, election calendar events, and even the latest delegate counts.

Let’s see Siri do that, eh?

Alexa apparently can’t tell you who to vote for, though, instead recommending that you “go with your gut” (a rather facile bit of advice indeed).

It’s all enabled via the Amazon Echo, a smart Bluetooth speaker that lets you interact with the cloud-based Alexa. The slick piece of hardware brings Siri-like functionality to your home. In addition to playing music and internet radio on command, Alexa can answer questions, read audiobooks and the news, report traffic and weather, give info on local businesses, and provide sports scores and schedules.

If you’ve got an Echo — or a Fire TV — you can enable the NBC News Election skill in the Alexa app.

NBC hopes to roll out new content and features in the skill, like polling data, primary results and candidate trivia.

Source: NBC News

Via: Engadget