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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
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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
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