Alexa Invocations

Alexa uses the concept of "Invocations" to trigger a specific voice app (skill) on your smart speaker. An invocation is like the name of your skill. Example invocations for the connecX platform include:

"Melrose Park"

"My Woniora"

"My Healey"

For all voice-related commands other than smart home, these invocations are needed to trigger the specific voice app.

All voice commands start with the wake-up word for the Alexa Smart Assistant. The default wake up word is "Alexa" but can also be "Computer" or "Echo". If you would like to use any of these, you will need to change this in the Settings on your Alexa app. Out of the box, all Amazon voice speakers will respond to the wake word "Alexa"

Standard Voice Commands for the connecX platform

Reading the News

Alexa, ask <Invoication Name> for the News

This command will read all of the precinct and building news

Make a Service Booking

Alexa, ask <Invoication Name> to make a Service booking

Then follow the prompts

You can use phrases like today, tomorrow, Tuesday, etc

Make a Facility Booking

Alexa, ask <Invoication Name> to make a Facility Booking

Then follow the prompts

You can use phrases like today, tomorrow, Tuesday, etc

Read your Messages

Alexa, ask <Invoication Name> for my messages

This will read all your messages from your messaging channels

Check on Events

Alexa, ask <Invoication Name> what's on today/this week/this month)