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ABC13 Houston

by ABC Digital

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“Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?”
“Alexa, play my Flash Briefing”

Description

The ABC13 Houston Flash Briefing reads you the top news stories from Houston and the surrounding neighborhoods.

Skill Details

Flash Briefing Skill
Rated: Guidance Suggested.
Guidance Suggested

The content of this skill is appropriate for most users. This skill may include:
- Account linking
- Advertisements
- User-generated content
- Personal information collection
- Location detection or location-based services
- Nudity or descriptions of nudity within medical, informational or artistic contexts
- Infrequent or mild references to cultural or religious intolerance
- Infrequent or mild realistic, cartoon, or fantasy violence or descriptions of violence
- Infrequent or mild references to alcohol, tobacco and drugs
- Infrequent or mild sexual and suggestive themes
- Infrequent use of mild profanity and crude humor
- Music and video skills may occasionally include strong profanity and sexual or suggestive themes
This skill contains dynamic content.
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Supported Languages

English (US)

Customer reviews

5 star		27%
4 star		9%
3 star		9%
2 star		9%
1 star		45%

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No Stars is Appropriate

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2021

As others have said, there is no real content, just the recitation of a headline-type (partial) sentence. It is a waste of time and memory space on your device/account. What news they do get across in the partial sentence is usually refleccive of their biased or hyped
approach.

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BSOD

Okay, but could be better!

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018

Other flash briefing skills have a live person providing the news which is far better than the text to speech used in this skill.

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Ryan B.

Digitally read news is lazy and painful to listen to in the morning

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2017

Not bad if you like monotone digitally read news. Channel 2’s briefing is read by an actual person, just saying.

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crap

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2020

It’s a bad computer voice reading the news. And usually just a long headline with no real content.

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Amazon Customer

Poor reporting and weak content.

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017

I listen to various new stations from around the country and I've lived in three cities in the last four years and this is by far the worst reporting of any major city that I have lived in.

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Kim

sounds dismal

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2020

it’s a robot reporting the news. yall need a live person doing this.

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aranda0408

Keeps repeating.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017

Something has changed recently. ABC13 briefing keeps repeating headlines 2-4 times

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