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Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

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Ep 1337DTD1337: Zen Spa and Square Breathing

It's a toofa today. I'm hoping that the calming combo of Zen Spa sounds and square breathing will send you into a state of relaxation only rivalled by a hot bath and a cup of cocoa.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 25, 20203 min

Ep 1336DTD1336: Remarkably Remote

Everything you need to know about working from home - from the remote work experts at GoToMeeting. This skill will help keep you productive and connected every weekday as you navigate a new working world. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 24, 20202 min

Ep 1335DTD1335: Down the Stretch

New contributor Brian Counter (@CultoftheOld on the Twitters) has pulled ahead with this horse-related racing skill. Nice. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 23, 20202 min

Ep 1334DTD1334: Daily Book Pick

An Amazon recommendation, this skill is a really nice way of getting great book recommendations from authors about other authors. Great twist.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 22, 20202 min

Ep 1333DTD1333: Twenty Questions (updated)

Last covered over 600 episodes ago and now with a nice sound-effect or two, this classic (and often spookily clairvoyant) skill is well worth a revisit.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 21, 20202 min

Ep 1332DTD1332: Voice Arcade

Today's skill brings together all those great skills by Labworks.io in one, handy arcade of audio goodness 👂🎮Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 20, 20204 min

Ep 1331DTD1331: Turning the A-lady into an A-man called Sam

Today David Ward ([email protected]) demos how your Dot can change gender in a trice - and get super-sassy and fabulously famous to boot. Now when will Uncle Sam free this Sam to come to other countries?Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 19, 20203 min

Ep 1330DTD1330: Homophonic Spree

Probably more about the probability of words than anything else, today's skill will at least help you learn some pretty obscure homophones you can look up later. Laters!Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 18, 20203 min

Ep 1329DTD1329: Zen Meditation

Test the zen-enducing properties of today's ambient sound skill to the very limit by simultaneously enduring some of my terrible bee jokes. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 17, 20205 min

Ep 1328DTD1328: MyTuner Radio

Now that all overseas stations are removed from TuneIn, A-lady users here in the UK are having to turn to other ways to access their fave foreign radio. The same is true for the TuneIn app on your phone, so just ask your virtual assistant instead.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 16, 20203 min

Ep 1327DTD1327: The Daily Prophet (revisited)

Covered over 600 episodes ago, this skill's a must to keep up-to-date with everything that's going on in the wizarding world - even if you're a muggle, this is a must-read.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 15, 20202 min

Ep 1326DTD1326: Self Hypnosis for Weight Loss

I… can… do… it… … I… will… lose… weight… 😪Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 14, 20204 min

Ep 1325DTD1325: Yoga Nidra

Today's soothing skill is supposed to be an alternative to a 20min power nap. Give it a go and check your power levels before and after and let me know if it worked for you.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 13, 20203 min

Ep 1324DTD1324: Beethoven's Vienna

An interactive audio tour through many of Beethoven's most notable milestones and music.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 12, 20203 min

Ep 1323DTD1323: Escape the Hideout (revisited)

Covered over 500 episodes ago, today we have an excellent escape the room skill with superior sound-effects. Can you recover the stolen loot of the notorious bank robber, Butch McLean?Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 11, 20203 min

Ep 1322DTD1322: Walk Through the Woods

Unlike most ambient sound skills, today's actually takes you on a journey through the woods past the soothing sounds of the forest. Choose from several soundscapes and set a sleep timer. Arboreal ambience at its best.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 10, 20202 min

Ep 1321DTD1321: Workout Coach

Loaded with lots of bodyweight-based exercises, today's skill will help you work out if you're a couch potato or a potential fitness coach yourself.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 9, 20203 min

Ep 1320DTD1320: LEGO DUPLO Stories

Gentle, mildly interactive stories for your toddlers to play along to with their Duplo bricks or similar. Nothing about pictures for those Echos with a screen, but the sounds and stories are great and the focus should be on play anyway.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 8, 20204 min

Ep 1319DTD1319: Mindscape

Today's skill can help you get tips on dealing with specific sources of stress, do breathing exercises and unwind with some soothing soundscapes. Looks pretty powerful to me.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 7, 20205 min

Ep 1318DTD1318: State Treasures

It's another escape the room skill with fab sound-effects. See if you can find your way out of the room, the building and the mess you've got yourself into and recover the stolen state treasures.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 6, 20203 min

Ep 1317DTD1317: Free audio books this month and A-lady, read a sci-fi story

A few more free books from Audible this month, plus at least one free sci-fi short too. Nice.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 5, 20203 min

Ep 1316DTD1316: Blind Hams Network

If you're a blind ham, then you may well like this skill sent in by first time contributor and all-round star; Georgina Joyce. If you're not, but you do have a forgiving sense of humour, then you may well be able to take meagre consolation from a few jokes I've sprinkled at the start.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 4, 20203 min

Ep 1315DTD1315: Guided Sleep Meditation

Boy this one's soporific. I'd like to write more about it, but…Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 3, 20203 min

Ep 1314DTD1314: Temperature Monitor

Once again Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) is back with a fab demo to help us keep our cool under heated circumstances. And don't forget that you can ask the A-lady to convert units, weights, measures,currencies and all other kinds of novel numerical scales to one from another too. Thus I know that 91°F is, in fact, a rather warmish 32.78°C.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 2, 20201 min

Ep 1313DTD1313: Joke Bloke

Every one's a winner in this excellent skill that serves up jokes from national newspaper; the Daily Star.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Sep 1, 20202 min

Ep 1312DTD1312: A-lady, do ASMR

This is either super-creepy or super-tingley depending upon your, er, autonomous sensory meridian response.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 31, 20203 min

Ep 1311DTD1311: Math Challenger

What two numbers, when multiplied together are 1 and when added together are 2? That's about my level - although I do manage to squeeze out a few harder ones in today's mind-mangling skill.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 30, 20202 min

Ep 1310DTD1310: Wait Wait Quiz

Hey, Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) is back. She's kindly provided me with this fab quiz demo which means I won't need to wait and wait untill it wends its way to the UK. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 29, 20203 min

Ep 1309DTD1309: SAT Word of the Day

The A-lady here in the UK needs to be sat down and shown how to pronounce 'SAT' correctly - that will 'buttress' her understanding of English acronyms, that's for sure.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 28, 20202 min

Ep 1308DTD1308: Animals Quiz

Phillip Chalker's back to bring us a brilliant skill all about animals around the world. Bonza.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 27, 20202 min

Ep 1307DTD1307: Top Trumps Pub Quiz

Another excellent quiz available on the A-lady with tip-top sound-effects. Who doesn't love Top Trumps?? Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 26, 20203 min

Ep 1306DTD1306: Additional - Ode to the amazing A-lady

Today my daughter, Faith, faithfully recites the brilliant ditty drafted especially for Dot to Dot by listener William Burrell. Thanks Billy.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 25, 20202 min

Ep 1305DTD1305: Tickle Me and a great A-lady Youtube channel

First we have a demo from fantastic listener, Rosanna Hostetler, which really tickles me, followed by a plug for the excellent 'Voice Spark Alexa and more' Youtube channel with top tips and demos. Check it out and subscribe at https://bit.ly/32oq5ySFeedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 25, 20202 min

Ep 1304DTD1304: Video Player

This video-playing skill (that also gives you audio for Echos without a screen) serves up mostly Spanish but some English and French TV channels - 67 in all. Don't forget, there's also the excellent Stream Player skill too. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 24, 20202 min

Ep 1303DTD1303: Lucky Charms Magical Mission

Lucky the leprechaun needs our help to bring back the magic. Are you less than, say, 8 years of age and extremely plucky? Good, then let's go.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 23, 20202 min

Ep 1302DTD1302: Potter Letters (not really revisited)

Today we're taking another look at the excellent Potter Letters skill from Drew Cosgrove ([email protected] and @DrewCosgrove on the Twitters) who, for whatever reason, has renamed his skill thus from the original 'Harry Potter Letters'. Still as magical as ever, though.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 22, 20203 min

Ep 1301DTD1301: Number Spies

Wow! This skill sounds complicated but, if you like being an audio-only version of James Bond (possibly even with an imaginary Lotus and a PP9 in your acoustic armpit) then this skill might be for you.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 21, 20203 min

Ep 1300DTD1300: A-lady, call my phone

Ever lost your phone around the house? Well the A-lady can help with that, as well as being able to call landlines and mobiles free of charge too. Absolutely brilliant.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 20, 20202 min

Ep 1299DTD1299: Hypnotise Me

Not so much hypnosis here as a set of soothing and soperiphic sounds to send you swiftly to sleep.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 19, 20203 min

Ep 1298DTD1298: Guided Meditation

Today's skill serves up some really nice-sounding meditations to soothe you to sleep or get you grounded. Groovy.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 18, 20203 min

Ep 1297DTD1297: Changes to the A-lady app and blocking explicit lyrics on Amazon Music

There's been some useful updates to the A-lady app. The hamburger menu is now 'More' at the bottom right. Find shortcuts to frequently used (and recently used) skills and features at the top of the home screen. There's also more personalized suggestions for skills and features you might enjoy. Scroll through the homepage, and see what else the A-lady has to offer. You can also ask her to block songs with explicit lyrics - on Amazon Music at least.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 17, 20202 min

Ep 1296DTD1296: Guess the Fake

It's your basic true or false game but by another name - and with bonus rounds and snazzy sound-effects. Beautiful.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 16, 20202 min

Ep 1295DTD1295: Fidget Spinner

Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) is back… again. This time she's spinning those fidget thingambebobs like there's no tomorrow. There's much thunder ominously a-booming outside so… maybe there isn't. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 15, 20203 min

Ep 1294DTD1294: Bird Song (revisited)

Covered over 1200 episodes ago (boy that makes me tired just thinking about it) and as marvellously mellifluous as ever, this skill is still your go-to guide to birds of all feathered flavours.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 14, 20203 min

Ep 1293DTD1293: A-lady, beatbox

Bmm, bmm, tshh! Bmm, bmm, tshh! That sort of thing (he says like he has any idea what he's talking about).Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 13, 20201 min

Ep 1292DTD1292: Horror Movie Adventure

No sound effects but, considering the subject of this skill, that's probably for the best…Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Aug 12, 20202 min