Well, at last for me a youtube skil will be verry good, cause I do not have the capacity to pay for other services of music myself and my mother said I will have the prime ackount, but no more other things.

@Aaron that starwars vr rig sounds pretty cool.

Myself I've had annoying amounts of work to do today for my phd, and unfortunately last night, while spending time having a meal out with mrs. Dark is always lovely, the meal itself was over priced for the quality. Hopefully though soon we'll find somewhere nice in this town which can make up for a few of the places we lost.

@orko what is I heart radio? Is that an us specific thing?

personally I use youtube for looking up odd bits of audio or downloading the occasional track, it's really handy when I have music to learn and what to hear three  four versions of something.
I've tried this with amazon prime but the  selection is pretty crappy and doesn't encourage me to pay for unlimited, as I said for me the main attraction to prime is actually the free delivery, which is sort of ironic in itself given that most of the  stuff my lady and I bought from amazon have actually been cds, which for some utterly illogical reason work out cheaper than trying to buy the things as mp3 downloads, which is just plane loopy!

@Angel I'm afraid I'd personally recommend just forgetting the Amazon echo in terms of music. unless there is a radio station you want and a corresponding skill the music services even with prime are crappy, actually Prime doesn't really do much at all for using Alexa, it's mainly about the delivery, prime video and twitch prime, I can't even get the Jeopardy skill on Alexa to do double jeopardy which it's supposed to do for prime customers but most definitely doesn't in the Uk).

On the plus side, for free games  and fun skills there is a lot on offer, which is where the Echo really shines as a device.

Hi LordLondon.
What kind of games did you have in mind?

Hahahahaha, looks like I'll have to do a lot of configurations, and research.
I should buy myself a separate machine and a home network to begin with. I'll write to the dev tomorrow and stuff. Blah this is why I hate computers.

I heared some radio stations with tune in from Alexa and I am curious, if I want us voice and my ackount is compatible with the Uk what I need to do, it sais on the dot of my friend if he will change the language, the ecow can have problems understanding.
I want to do that cause the UK voice is not so good like the US one, the use voice can sing more songs etc.

It is not related to tune in, it is related to the voice Alexa is using, the voice for UK is, from my perspective worse than the one in the US who has alot of songs if you say Alexa, sing a song, it has a more pleasant tone and I personaly prefer american english, cause the part of my family who speack english spoke with me with american accent.

@Dark

For the first couple of years, the Amazon Echo and the Alexa service were only available in the US and some of those skills may have been written back then, so there was no rest of the world for them to be made available to.

As Amazon, the Echo, and Alexa become more global, some developers are going back and making their skills available globaly. Unfortunately, not all developers are so forward thinking.

As you requested a while back I have written to several developers, the one for Dungeon Crawl for one, and asked them to consider making their Echo skills available globaly. Some have responded with a we are working on it, others have not replied at all.

It is what it is.

Hey guys. I know I'm a bit late to this topic but oh well.
This month has been full of birthdays for my friends and family, and more have yet to come. I've been Trying to get back to podcasting, as hard as it is because I haven't been on top of it like I should be. I've started submitting podcasts to ACB Radio's Main Menu show, so if you're a fan of it expect me to pop up from time to time.
One thing I'm particularly excited about is my 18th birthday coming up on the first of March. Mainly the reason behind my excitement is the fact that I'll be able to get a paypal merchant account, which means I can finally start my business.
Well, that's all from me, have a great morning you guys.

idk what you're saying

@Angel, from the perspective of someone who has had voice lessons and does! sing in Italian on occasion,it actually sounds like your teacher is doing her job properly.
It sounds to me as if she's recognised you have some possibility to develop your voice and your singing, so she is pushing you, just the same way a  sports coach might push someone who showed a promising talent with a certain sport.

Singing is very physically demanding, it will! make you ache, and likely cause your voice to feel tired until your muscles get used  to the correct breathing etc, however it will be worth it in the end, just think of it like  exercise training because that is effectively what it is.

As for singing in Italian, there are certain vocal reasons why Italian is a good language to sing in. The long vowels give you practice opening your mouth, while the cons tenants are soft and give you practice forming them. My singing teacher was very fond of giving me Vokais, these are short peaces in Italian intended to expand the  voice range and actually make great warmups.

Of course, not all singing teachers are equal, but I'd suggest if your serious about music you give this teacher a chance and give what she's asking you to try a chance too, since if you can develop your voice it will be good for many things from public speaking, to health, as well as being a great aide to any performances you want to do.

For me, today  hasn't been good either, since this morning we went to a funeral of a dear friend of my parents, a very nice Vicar who I had a great respect for.
Oddly his funeral was quite hilarious, everyone telling stories about him and feeling strangely upbeat, then again he was quite a character. he even chose the hymns to be less than dolful.

It was and is extremely sad to miss him, but it was sort of nice to remember him too.

I've also been playing lots of Land of Livia, and we're staying at my parents tonight which means other games have had to take a back seat but I hope to get back to things tomorrow.

Well Dark, you can be right, but my voice is still changing cause I am 15, I can talk only verry soft, I can not scream, I can not sing like a sopran and she wants that without other vocalises before or what ever are them called.
She is screaming to everione, including herself, today she gave a punch to a kild and that is not normal.

@Angel the hitting isn't good, it's been illegal in the Uk since the early seventies I think. With your voice though it depends.
I once met a 15 year old base who honestly sounded as though he were forty, while my voice at fifteen was very horrible, being either a flooty surprano or a scratchy baritone. I first had voice lessons at 17 and at tht that point the teacher really pushed me, she told me I was going to be a tenor which stunned me, since at the time singing really high was damnably difficult .

So either this woman is really pushing since she wants you to develop in the right way, or she's an idiot, but you won't know until you firstly talk to her,  maybe get a second opinion.

As for me lots more reading of words of radience, we've hit the bit where there is a serious amount of excreter ex extractor, which makes it very compelling, though this is less good when you have a mild tendency to insomnea and your wife has a major tendency to insomnea and you wind up sitting up all night reading  don't even wake up until after 1 pm the next day when you suddenly realize you have no food in the house .

This weekend we'll also be going quad speaker hunting which I'm looking forward to, since it's been damnably myserable not to be able to listen to music or other stuff with my lady.