Dozens of the best Amazon Echo and Fire TV Alexa commands. Others are available in the More menu of the Alexa app Alexa isn't just a speaker, it's a whole box of awesome waiting to be opened. Grab ...

Alexa Skills can simplify your chores and make work and personal life easier—if you know the ins and outs. This ebook explains what Skills are and how to enable and use them and offers tips for ...

David Priest is an award-winning writer and editor who formerly covered home security for CNET. But skills created by third-party developers and activated on the Alexa app can still bring real smarts ...

Connecting Cortana and Alexa. For starters, you will have to pair the two services, which means you will not only need an Amazon account but also a Microsoft account. Beyond that, ...

At last, you’ve found yourself with an Amazon Echo speaker. The Echo (or Echo Dot, or Echo Tap, or Echo Show, or Echo Plus, or Echo Spot) is now in your kitchen, and it’s ready for your every command.

Alexa skills can be fun and educational, but they’re not all created equally. Some of the games are useful and entertaining, while others are bland and buggy. With that in mind, we’ve pulled together ...

You couldn’t miss the 2024 AI trends on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, but one announcement that flew slightly under the radar was Amazon’s launch of new ...

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 ...

In a developer blog post published today, Alexa AI director of applied science Ruhi Sarikaya detailed the advances in machine learning technologies that have allowed Alexa to better understand users ...

Don’t we all love streamlined processes? Like seriously, it can be quicker at times to ask a smart assistant to do something than having to do it ourselves on our smartphones. Well, Alexa’s becoming ...

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 ...