By Alan Miller, editor, The Columbus Dispatch
“Alexa, give me the news.”
If you are among the millions of people using voice-operated devices, you’ll find The Dispatch on at least one of them.
Alexa is the one, and she is a voice assistant from Amazon. So is Siri, found on iPhones. Cortana is the Windows version. And with Google, it’s simply “Hey, Google ...” followed by a request for assistance.
When Amazon gave news providers the opportunity to deliver local news on its devices, we signed up.
This follows a decades-old Dispatch philosophy that we want to deliver news to you in whatever form you want to receive it — on paper, online, on your phone or tablet, or via the silver tones of Alexa through such devices as the Echo or Echo Dot.