This is a new skill I have created for the Alexa device, which is now available on Amazon here (removed).
This skill has Alexa read aloud live text commentary from any of the days selected matches.
I wrote this skill as I found it difficult to hear specific commentary for teams lower down in the rankings. I would have to listen to a sports radio station, which usually featured commentary from another game, in the hope of catching any updates on the game I was actually interested in. I found this very distracting, as the radio had to be on all the time – very distracting if you wanted to watch a movie.
My skill remains silent until a match event actually occurs. A notification is sounded, followed by the voiced text of the event. This means I can now quite happily watch TV or play a video game without the constant distraction of the radio and comfortably hear how my team is progressing.
Now updated to use Amazon’s AWS Polly speech engine.
Alextra Time – Alexa Skill