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A new way of booking assistance on trains
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A train company turns to a voice assistant to try to make the experience more seamless for visually impaired passengers who are booking assistance.
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Virgin Trains offers customers a new way of booking assistance during travel on its routes. It has developed a skill for Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. Emma Tracey tries it out for us and Vic Whitehouse from Virgin Trains explains why they’ve developed it.
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