Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant To Help Commemorate ANZAC Day 2022

Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant To Help Commemorate ANZAC Day 2022

This Anzac Day will be commemorated differently, with a little help from voice assistants Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Be transported back in time, through the oral histories and diaries of Australian war heroes past and contemporary stories from those in service. Listen to moving and exciting tales from WWI, WWII and beyond curated by State Library of Queensland for Anzac Square Memorial Galleries.

With Anzac Stories the team from State Library can place a poppy at Anzac Square Memorial Galleries in Brisbane prior to Anzac Day on your behalf. Through your voice activated Amazon Alexa or Google assistant you may choose to “Ask Anzac Stories to place a poppy” and staff will lay a poppy in the Memorial Gallery of your choice; the WWI, WWII or post 1945 galleries or on a specific memorial plaque. You can also hear The Last Post and keeping with tradition, be led in a minute’s silence to honour the fallen.

The State Library of Queensland collects and preserves a comprehensive collection of Queensland’s cultural and documentary heritage. The collection of original materials and the recording of stories have enabled the development of these Anzac Stories. Two stories drawn from State Library’s unique collections are those of Maurice Delpratt and Jane McLennan.

A Turkish prisoner of war during WWI, Delpratt wrote back to his family throughout the war. His letters and postcards give a poignant first-hand account of what it was like to live as a prisoner of war. Nurse Jane McLennan’s collection includes her personal diary recounting her experiences working as a nurse at Salonika, Greece, as well as touching souvenirs from her travels through Egypt.

Visit Anzac Square Memorial Galleries to find out how you and your family can commemorate differently with Anzac Stories.

The technology for the project has been developed right here in Queensland with Coolum Beach based software start-up, Alkira, a recipient of the Advance Queensland Ignite fund.




Please login with linkedin to comment

Alexa Amazon anzac day

Latest News

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm
  • Media

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm

Sydney Comedy Festival 2024 is live and ready to rumble, showing the best of international and homegrown talent at a host of venues around town. As usual, it’s hot on the heels of its big sister, the giant that is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, picking up some acts as they continue on their own […]

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth
  • Advertising

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth

The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has announced the final epic lineup of local and global marketing powerhouses for RESET for Growth 2024. Lead image: Josh Faulks, chief executive officer, AANA  Back in 2000, a woman with no business experience opened her first juice bar in Adelaide. The idea was brilliantly simple: make healthy […]