Alexa's skills go beyond Alexa-enabled devices. Alexa can also interact with certain smart home hardware, including garage ...

Amazon Alexa skills allow you to customize the artificially intelligent assistant to suit all sorts of needs.

Alexa Skills can simplify your chores and make work and personal life easier—if you know the ins and outs. This ebook explains what Skills are and how to enable and use them and offers tips for ...

Every few months, I take a hard look at Amazon Echo and catch up on the latest skills. If you’re not familiar with skills, these programs give Alexa new tricks. What’s interesting is that individuals ...

The program, which dates back to 2017, offers free AWS credits and monthly checks to Amazon app developers with popular Alexa Skills. The money stops flowing on June 30. Our team tests, rates, and ...

You couldn’t miss the 2024 AI trends on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, but one announcement that flew slightly under the radar was Amazon’s launch of new ...

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Don’t we all love streamlined processes? Like seriously, it can be quicker at times to ask a smart assistant to do something than having to do it ourselves on our smartphones. Well, Alexa’s becoming ...

At last, you’ve found yourself with an Amazon Echo speaker. The Echo (or Echo Dot, or Echo Tap, or Echo Show, or Echo Plus, or Echo Spot) is now in your kitchen, and it’s ready for your every command.