700 ESPN on Alexa

What is a custom Alexa skill?

Amazon’s voice service is called Alexa. Much like your phone has an “app”, your Amazon devices (Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Tap, Echo Show, etc) have skills. Users interact with their Alexa enabled device via skills.

Skills can be “default” – meaning they come pre-enabled on your Alexa device, or they can be “custom“. Custom skills are searchable in the Alexa Skills Store and offer a more robust feature set.​

 

Are custom Alexa skills free for Alexa users?

Yes, custom Alexa skills are free for users to enable and interact with on their Alexa-enabled devices.

How do I enable 700 ESPN’s custom Alexa skill?

To enable, you have three options:

​Search Amazon.com/skill for the skill name & enable or click HERE
Open the Alexa companion app on your mobile device, search for the skill name & click enable
Say “Alexa, enable Seven Hundred E.S.P.N skill

 

Once my skill is enabled, how do I use it?

Using a “wake-word”, Alexa begins listening for your commands. The wake word for the 700 ESPN skill is: “Alexa… Open Seven Hundred E.S.P.N.”

Skills have sets of features/abilities that you can access simply by asking. Until you are familiar with a skill’s abilities, use Help or Options voice commands to hear what a skill can do. When you know what features are available, ask for your specific course of action.

 

Or say, “Alexa, ask Seven Hundred E.S.P.N….

  • “To listen live”
  • “To resume”
  • “For options”

 

When playing audio, you can say:

  • Alexa, pause

 

When playing on-demand content, you can skip to an older show by saying:

  • Alexa, next

 

And navigate to the previous content by saying:

  • Alexa, go back

 

To skip to the next episode of a podcast; Simply say:

  • Alexa… Next

 

Don’t have an Echo or Echo Dot or Show?

Have more questions about how to installing Alexa Skills? Click HERE