New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Jagran New Media, the digital wing of Dainik Jagran, will now have its Home Remedies and News Skills on Amazon Alexa to provide its readers solutions for their common health problems and also a 360-degree overview of the latest happenings across all genres from around the world.
The new feature will help users get simple home remedies for day-to-day health problems like headache, cold, fever and many more. The feature will help them cure the issues with simple home remedies like staying hydrated, keeping the body cool during fever and many more. The skill can be experienced across all Amazon Echo smart speakers as well as a range of Alexa built-in devices.
The skill will be available in both Hindi and English languages. To get the information in English, the users would need to say: “Alexa, Open Home Remedies” while for Hindi, they would need to say: ‘’Alexa, gharelu upchar kholo” and the users will get all the desired information.
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The feature will be updated on a regular basis to add new ailments and their remedies, which will be provided by experts at Onlymyhealth.com, India’s only complete health and lifestyle website which is a product of MMI Online Ltd -- a strategic online division from the house of Jagran Prakashan.
Similarly the News Skills feature will keep the users updated about all the latest happenings from the around the world on national news, politics, cricket, entertainment and much more. The Jagran Hindi news is now available on Alexa as flash news briefing. The news bulletin, which will be available in both audio and video, will be updated three times in a day to keep users updated about the latest happenings.
Speaking on the new relationship with Amazon, Jagran New Media CEO Bharat Gupta said that the association will help users get credible news and factual health information at one place.
“Keeping in times with the new consumer trait of interactive voice based consumption, Jagran New Media in cooperation with Amazon has developed two Alexa Skills ‘Jagran News’ & ‘Gharelu Upchaar’ catering to the News & Health Cohort respectively. Both these categories are most widely explored by users and will give them a chance to experience and consume credible news or factual health info in their own time and place,” he added.
“Thanks to the Indianised NLP developed by Alexa, the Rich Indic Language experience promises real, interactive & contextual content discoverability & consumption. The nature of the device makes it Family Inclusive and opens door to potential content templates powered by Credible Facts in a fun filled way. We are hoping to explore, develop and engage, a new wave of Audience through innovative and fresh content templates powered by this promising platform across emerging Bharat,” Mr Gupta added.