This time a year ago, Amazon’s Alexa had a little more than 100 skills. Today, there are more than 7,000, and new skills are being added fast. Last November, Amazon launched the Alexa Skills Marketplace to allow the owners of devices that speak to Alexa to share, shop, and enable skills on Amazon.com.
Here are five skills released within the past week that are worth checking out.
This skill reads you poems that are then sent to the Alexa app in case you want to read them again later. That may sound like a parody, and it is a bit choppy, but a service for late night poems seems like the sort of thing that could be pretty entertaining and is somehow fitting for a voice interface.
Civics…