Best NEW skills in Alexa
You might not realise it, but Alexa is continually acquiring new capabilities. Due to the cloud-based way Amazon’s smart speaker works, the company can quietly add major new features and upgrades without your being aware of it – until one day you discover a new talent by chance, or through personal recommendation.
To be fair, Amazon does maintain a low-key blog detailing enhancements to the Echo platform, to which it posts roughly once a month: you can check it out at pcpro.link/312skills. We’ve rounded up the best of Alexa’s most compelling new skills here, many of which are already enabled and ready to use on your Echo devices.
If there’s a function you’re hoping for that hasn’t yet been added, you can see whether it’s previously been requested by developers in the Alexa Skills Developer Voice and Vote forum at pcpro.link/312vote – if it has, you can add your vote; if it hasn’t, you can add it yourself.
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