New voice app brings Durham’s Regional services to smart home devices

The Regional Municipality of Durham, which encompasses the City of Oshawa, Town of Whitby, Town of Ajax, Municipality of Clarington, City of Pickering, Township of Scugog, Township of Uxbridge, and the Township of Brock in Southern Ontario, is making it easy for residents to find information about regional programs and services.

How, exactly? Through an Alexa and Google Assitant enabled smart home device voice app called ‘myDurham311.’

Durham Region, in collaboration with Qwhery, is officially the first regional municipality in Canada to deliver regional services to smart home devices.

The municipality’s news release says, “now it’s easy to find out about elected officials, Regional facilities, waste pick up, the nearest bus stop, and even when to expect the next Durham Region Transit bus.”

You can find the myDurham 311 app on Google or Amazon Alexa marketplace. After downloading the app, simply say “Hey Google, talk to myDurham 311,” or “Alexa, open myDurham 311,” and proceed with whatever questions you might have.

The new voice assistant support will ensure that Regional services are accessible to everyone in Durham region and in several ways, including in-person, web, emails, phone calls, social media, and now, via your voice assistant.

Image credit: Regional Municipality of Durham

Source: Regional Municipality of Durham

For all the latest Technology News Click Here 

 For the latest news and updates, follow us on Google News

Read original article here

Denial of responsibility! TechNewsBoy.com is an automatic aggregator around the global media. All the content are available free on Internet. We have just arranged it in one platform for educational purpose only. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials on our website, please contact us by email – [email protected]. The content will be deleted within 24 hours.