Emergency alerts may be coming to Amazon Alexa within a year

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On this week's Federal Emergency Management Agency podcast, the director 
of the national emergency alerting system (IPAWS) mentions that FEMA has 
been in dicussions with Amazon about pushing emergency alerts to Alexa 
smart devices within the next year.

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/audio/185904

https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1581516469042-7fbd06067a50c2aa33fe60e8df2a5b5d/FINAL_IPAWS_TRANSCRIPT.docx

You may remember last year, I was trying to get smart speaker vendors to 
add emergency alerts.  But the program managers at those companies said 
they had no plans to add emergency alerts.