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Amazon Alexa Skills Store

Skills “app store” makeover and add new Skills by voice

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Grant
@grantgamesgames · Co-Founder, God Hates Games
Alexa still needs to fix how you interact with skills, most skills are far too much work to use to be worthwhile or timesaving: 1. You have to memorize your Skill's names to use most of them ie "Alexa, open BART Times" or "Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride" 2. There is no context or stringing together of commands I can't say "Turn off the Living room and Off… See more
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Covered by @sarahintampa on TechCrunch: Amazon gives the Alexa ‘app store’ a makeover, now lets you add new Skills by voice Things to highlight: Now Skills are organized into categories ....the Alexa Skills homepage features collections of Skills to enable better discovery of these add-ons Amazon has rolled out a new feature that lets you add Skills to your… See more
 
Niv Dror
@nivo0o0 · Writer/Social Editor @ProductHunt
This is great! Having played around with Alexa for the first time all weekend, I an say that.... 1. Enabling skills by voice is great (going to the Alexa app to install them usually means a command didnt work and kind of cuts into the flow of things) 2. My mom absolutely loves her, see this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/Nivo0o0/stat... 3. Alexa meets … See more