In late 2017, Alexa entered the Indian market. After all the love she had garnered around the world in countries like US, UK, and Germany, it was time for Indians to get to know her. Today, Alexa is skilled, intelligent and sounds pretty familiar. She cracks jokes that have deep desi contexts, finds recipes, reads out the news, helps us pay utility bills with Amazon Pay, keeps us posted about the weather, plays music, and does a lot more. Additionally, it is now powered by over 30,000 skills in English and over 800 skills in Hindi that make her perform more tasks, narrate stories, play games with families, help people meditate, and turn on the lights in your house, for example.
Speaking of Alexa Skills, they are app-like abilities that can be downloaded and enabled for your Alexa device. In addition to helping you set up your Amazon Echo device, the Amazon Alexa mobile app can help you discover and enable Alexa skills that are designed by developers across categories such as kids, education & reference, games & trivia, productivity, news, music, and lifestyle, to name a few, in order to expand the functionality of Amazon’s AI assistant “Alexa.”
Once skills are enabled from the Alexa app, your Amazon Echo or any other Alexa-enabled device can perform skill-specific tasks by following your voice instructions. If you haven’t tried Alexa skills yet, flip through the pages to learn more about the popular and worth trying Alexa skills and commands.
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