Voice Apps

Voice Skills and Actions for Smart Speakers

Yale New Haven Health’s voice skills and actions keep you connected to our outstanding physicians and innovative care services through free applications designed for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant devices.

Yale New Haven Health Tip of the Day

Receive daily health tips from Yale New Haven Health experts, including healthy living advice on topics like nutrition, exercise, sleep and medical care for your family.  

Enable Skills and Actions

On Amazon Alexa ...

1. Go to the Yale New Haven Tip of the Day on the Amazon Skills store. Click “Enable Skill.”
2. Open your Alexa app and search “Yale New Haven” in the Alexa Skills & Games section. Click “Enable Skill.”
3. Say, “Enable Yale New Haven Health Tip of the Day” using your Alexa-enabled device.

On Google Assistant ...

1. Go to the Yale New Haven Tip of the Day on the Google site. Click “Send to device”, and select the device you’d like to enable the skill on.
2. Say, “Launch Yale New Haven Health Tip of the Day” using your Google Assistant or Google Home-enabled device.

Add to your Daily Briefing

On Amazon Alexa ...

1. Go to Settings > “Flash Briefing.”
2. Click “Get more Flash Briefing content.”
3. Search for “Yale New Haven Health Tip of the Day.”
4. Click on the link for the feed and click “Enable Skill” to add it to your Flash Briefing.

On Google Assistant ...

1. Go to Settings > Assistant > “Routines.”
2. Select a Routine and click “Add Action.”
3. Type “Launch Yale New Haven Health Tip of the Day.”

Privacy Policy

For voice applications such as those enabled by Amazon and Google, YNHHS collects a unique identifier from your Amazon and Google account. This information is used to enhance user experience and is not personally identifiable to you. We collect no additional information from your account.

Google and Amazon collect and store both the spoken utterance from the customer, and the skill's response, to improve and troubleshoot the voice experience.
You may delete this data in both applications:

• See Amazon's privacy policy and terms of use for more information.
  
• See Google’s privacy policy and terms of use for more information.