by Joe Lonergan

Recently our Smart Hub skill has had a name change due to our rebrand. It used to be called the NCBI Smart Hub and the voice command was “Alexa, launch My NCBI”. But now we are Vision Ireland, so our Smart Hub skill is known as the Vision Ireland Smart Hub.

You can launch the My V I skill by saying “Alexa, launch My V I”. To access all features of the My VI skill such as membership to the library for talking newspapers it is necessary to link the skill to your myVI account.

To read more about linking your account and enabling the skill check out this SmartHub Article.

Listening to V I Live radio

To listen to the Vision Ireland Online Radio service, open the V I skill by saying “Alexa, open myVI” or “Alexa launch myVI”. When the skill is open it will read out the menu. You can listen to the full menu, or you can interrupt it with a voice command such as “Alexa, listen to V I live radio”. Now the radio will start playing with a selection of our recently published podcasts, advocacy talks, and a weekly Vision Sports update.

If you are an owner of an Amazon Alexa smart speaker, give this a try and we hope you enjoy the content.

The SmartHub skill has been nominated for a 2024 National Digital Award and was highlighted by Amazon’s CTO at a recent Amazon AI Conference – myNCBI Smart Hub takes centre stage at Amazon AI Conference – Vision Ireland.