Alexa skills are voice-activated functions for Amazon Echo speakers and displays similar to apps on a smartphone. This list ...

Just picked up an Amazon Echo device? Then you'll be itching to discover what it can do. Play music? Check. Answer questions? Check. But as the 30 best Alexa skills (skills being similar to apps), ...

Amazon to End Program That Pays Developers to Create Alexa Skills The program, which dates back to 2017, offers free AWS credits and monthly checks to Amazon app developers with popular Alexa Skills.

While the average Hackaday reader is arguably less likely than most to install a megacorp’s listening device in their home, we know there’s at least some of you out there that have an Amazon hockey ...

In another sign that Amazon is changing course with Alexa, the company has warned developers that it will soon stop paying them to build Alexa skills. As spotted by Bloomberg, Amazon posted a notice ...

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 ...

Amazon Alexa skills allow you to customize the artificially intelligent assistant to suit all sorts of needs. You can add new skills to Alexa from the mobile app, a ...

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...