News Streams

News Streams catalog

About

News streams from around the globe

PRs adding new feeds welcome, especially for unsupported languages

Supported stations include:

[EN-US] AP - Associated Press Hourly Radio News
[EN-US] Fox News
[EN-US] NPR News Now
[EN-US] PBS NewsHour
[EN-US] GPB - Georgia Public Broadcasting
[EN-GB] BBC News
[EN-CA] CBC News
[ES-ES] RNE Radio Nacional de España
[PT-PT] TSF Rádio Notícias
[NL-NL] NOS
[NL-BE] VRT Nieuws
[DE] Ö3 Nachrichten
[DE] DLF
[DE] WDR
[FI] YLE
[SV] Ekot

Classic Core Installation

If you are using this skill with mycroft classic core, you have to disable the official skill because they are incompatible

To play https streams properly you also need to install vlc

sudo apt-get install vlc

and make it the default it in your .conf

  "Audio": {
    "backends": {
      "local": {
        "active": false
      },
      "vlc": {
        "active": true
      }
    },
    "default-backend": "vlc"
  },

Examples

"play the news"
"play npr news"
"play euronews"
"play catalan news"
"play portuguese news"
"play news in spanish"

Credits

JarbasAl

Metadata

Release files for ovos-skill-news 0.4.9a4

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