New feature: Talk to Faithlife on your Amazon Echo!
Your Amazon Echo can play music, check the weather, and even order a pizza... but now it can do something much more important: read the Bible. With the Faithlife Skill, your Echo can read Bible verses, daily devotionals, prayers, and more.
http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#skills/dp/B01J6U1ABM/?ref=skill_dsk_skb_sr_0
Here are some of the things you can ask:
Read Jeremiah 29 verse 11- What is today's devotional? - Reads from Morning and Evening
- What is the verse of the day?
If you link your Faithlife account, you can also ask:
What should I pray for today?
What are my readings for today? - This uses your preferred Bible, and can also read from most books if you create a custom reading plan in Logos 6
It will even answer some trivia questions, such as: "Who were the apostles?", "What are the fruits of the spirit?", "What is the Lord's prayer?", and "What is the apostles' creed?"
This project was developed during one of our company hackathons and we're excited to release it today! What else would you like to see this skill do for you?
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Dustin Masters said:
What else would you like to see this skill do for you?
Alexa, please write this Sunday's sermon on John 8:12-20.
-Donnie
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Donnie Hale said:Dustin Masters said:
What else would you like to see this skill do for you?
Alexa, please write this Sunday's sermon on John 8:12-20.
-Donnie
LOL!
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The Oracle of Amazon can see all and tell all ...
[;)]Instead of Artificial Intelligence, I prefer to continue to rely on Divine Intelligence instructing my Natural Dullness (Ps 32:8, John 16:13a)
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Donnie Hale said:
Alexa, please write this Sunday's sermon on John 8:12-20.
I'm sorry, Donnie, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Instead of Artificial Intelligence, I prefer to continue to rely on Divine Intelligence instructing my Natural Dullness (Ps 32:8, John 16:13a)
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This is a wonderful "skill". Thank you!
The Alexa page really doesn't document everything you mentioned above. A list of all the commands would be advantageous.
Currently it only mentions
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Alexa, ask Faith Life to read Jeremiah 29 verse 11. -
Ask Faith Life, what should I pray for today? -
Ask Faith Life, what are my readings for today?
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Donnie Hale said:Dustin Masters said:
What else would you like to see this skill do for you?
Alexa, please write this Sunday's sermon on John 8:12-20.
-Donnie
Sure, would you like me to go ahead and preach it for you too...oh, by the way, any fries with that? Now get to work and stop playing!
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Cool!
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Alexa, at what age did Paul the Apostle convert or accept Jesus as His Savior?
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"Alexa, ask Faithlife for Help" to get some ideas on what you can ask.
What would you like to be able to ask Alexa, or type into the Command Bar, or ask Cortana, about the Bible, Logos.com, your Faithlife account, your church, etc.? Feel free to post your ideas or example conversations here.
Here are some of my ideas:
- What pre-pubs am I waiting for?
- What is the balance on my account?
- What’s new on Faithlife TV?
- Read me a Bible story
- Give me verses on Hope
- Teach me to pray (returns Lord’s Prayer)
- Show me the Verse of the Day
- What time is church on Sunday?
- What time is the Easter service?
- What happened today in Christian history?
- What is happening at church this week? / tonight / today → remind me (to have reminder sent)
- When is Easter?
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Here is my list, incomplete
- Contana: Open today's reading on X book.
- Open xxxx Layout
- Open the xxx Dictionary to yyy
- Open my preferred Bible commentary to Luke 5:8
- Open my Bible (Preferred Bible) to the Beatitudes
- Find all the miracles of Jesus in the book of John
- Open passage/exegetical guide to xxxx
- Use it to invoke any command from the Documents, Guide or Tool Menu
- Go to the home page
Mission: To serve God as He desires.
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A handicapped friend of mine suggested it would be nice to be able to use his voice to ask cortana to do searches, and have cortana read those same searches back... EG
Cortana: read book:ch:vs
Cortana: Search for xxx within xx words of xxx
Cortana: open (book title) and read.
I think there is some read aloud functionality now yes? Its not something I generally use... But for him bible study is a struggle as reading is for him a struggle. He seems to want to be able to control Logos from a headset by commanding cortana. Maybe what he really wants is "Logosana". hahaL2 lvl4 (...) WORDsearch, all the way through L10,
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i love this! But I can't seem to get Alexa to read from my preferred bible (ESV). it is. Set to ESV on all my iOS devices, what else is there to do?
thanks!
mc
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Read "Title of Book" and have it read where I last left off.
Look up "Word" and have it return the entry of the word in your top most Bible dictionary.
Do a Word Study on "Word" and have it return the entry from a lexical entry for the word.
How many times does Grace appear in Romans?
Just a few thoughts.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
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Can't locate the alexa skill either using the website or the app.
Does it still exist? I'm in the UK, does that make a difference? (There are hundreds of other skills available, just not Faithlife)
Thanks.
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It still exists and should be live, not sure why it's not appearing for you. I'll have a look.
Dustin
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Found the problem, the skill was not enabled for UK distribution. I have enabled that and submitted it for certification, it should be available soon.
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Many thanks, Dustin.
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Amazon has approved the skill for distribution in the UK.
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Does Cortana currently work with Logos 7?
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OK, so why is Alexa cool, and Cortana (sp?) annoying?
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Dustin, thanks for this skill but I do not have an Echo.
Would it be possible to hook up these skills to IFTTT? Then, it opens up a world of possibilities!
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This does not appear to be available in the U.K. Yet.
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Dustin Masters said:
Amazon has approved the skill for distribution in the UK.
Hi Dustin,
Happy new year!
This is still not showing up in list of skills (tried searching for Logos and Faithlife and bible etc) as of today (8th Jan 2017) in UK.
Do these things usually take a while?
James
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Dustin Masters said:
Amazon has approved the skill for distribution in the UK.
Hi Dustin, thanks for doing this. I didn't know about this skill so I can't wait to try it out :-)
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Still can't see it in the UK ? Any idea when it will be available.
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When I say the following:
Alexa "Ask Faith Life, what are my readings for today"
Alexa responds with "You have no reading for today".
Yet - I have Logos7 and have Faith Life study bible loaded on my Android with a plan to read the bible in a year. I see others have the same issue but I don't see anyone offering a solution.
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It does work with Echo Dot but I am having difficulty with reading plans. Other documented features work.
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Sorry about the "no readings" issue, I just shipped a fix.
How it works: Alexa picks the latest reading plan you have joined, and checks if there are any unread readings. It then reads out today's reading and marks it as read for you.
I'm unsure why the skill is still unavailable in the UK, is it visible here? https://www.amazon.com/Faithlife-Corporation/dp/B01J6U1ABM
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If you're curious about what reading plans you have joined, you can visit https://documents.logos.com and "Disconnect" from the ones you no longer want.
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Dustin Masters said:
I'm unsure why the skill is still unavailable in the UK, is it visible here? https://www.amazon.com/Faithlife-Corporation/dp/B01J6U1ABM
Yes it is visible there but not active (instead a link is provided to the generic uk skills page on amazon.co.uk) - However, it is not yet showing on that amazon.co.uk page !
I know there's nothing you can probably do at your end as it seems to be an amazon issue, but it seems to have taken a long time since you activated it for UK use back in November!
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