Alexa skills are voice-activated functions for Amazon Echo speakers and displays similar to apps on a smartphone. This list features standout skills that highlight the platform's potential. They range ...

If you've got an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know how much fun having Alexa at your fingertips can be despite the risk to your privacy and security. Whether playing music, answering random ...

Amazon's Alexa and other digital assistants are changing the way we get information and control our smart homes. They are fundamentally altering the way in which we interact with our computing devices ...

I primarily got the Amazon Echo to help my son get answers from Alexa, the smart virtual assistant. So even if I am not around, he can still learn, explore, and find his own way of interacting with it ...

In yet another step toward the enterprise side of the burgeoning conversational intelligence segment, Amazon today launched Alexa Knowledge Skills, a new skill type for its Alexa platform that allows ...

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 ...

Beginning of the year, Amazon announced its Alexa-hosted skills platform, which is set to make Alexa skill development much easier. The main benefit of Alexa-hosted skills is that it automatically ...