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.

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 ...

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Amazon on Thursday launched a new service aimed at Alexa developers that automatically provisions and helps them to manage a set of AWS cloud resources for their Alexa skill’s backend service. The ...

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has a new trick: transmitting secure patient information between patients and caregivers. Developers can now use the Alexa Skills Kit to build HIPAA-compliant apps, ...

At Amazon's Alexa Live developers' event last month, the agent's steward took up the mantle of improving skill discovery. A perennial challenge in many marketplaces and an exceptional bane of many ...

Amazon Alexa had a good year as a developer platform – at least in terms of the number of voice apps being built for Alexa, if not yet the monetization of those apps. According to new data published ...

Alexa can play radio stations and grant you access to thousands of radio stations if you enable the skill on the Alexa app.

Amazon has counted on others to spread Alexa everywhere — first developers, then device makers, and most recently everyone else. It’s been about a year since Amazon unveiled Alexa Skill Blueprints, a ...