Daily Mail to integrate with Amazon Alexa
British newspaper The Daily Mail will be the first news brand to use Amazon’s personal home assistant, Alexa, and its corresponding speaker, Echo. As part of The Daily Mail’s paid-for digital edition, the newspaper’s content will be available to hear through the system. Users will be able to navigate by page, section and columnist, as well as a shuffle mode. Alexa launched in September, with over 1,000 third party skills advertised.

The Daily Mail is the first UK newsbrand to make use of Amazon’s personal home assistant Alexa, with the Echo speaker able to read out the news on demand.

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As part of Mail Plus, the paid for digital edition, content from the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and weekend magazines, the Weekend on Saturday and YOU and Event on Sunday will be available through the speaker.