The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for you to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. Alexa is the cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo, a new category of device designed around your voice.
We announced the availability of the Alexa Skills Kit a little over a month ago, and we’ve been impressed with some of the skills developers are teaching Alexa. We wanted to give you an early look at a few of these third-party Alexa skills that are starting to come out of the pipeline.
To use these new skills, you will need to enable them in the Echo smartphone app. Simply open the app and tap on “Skills” in the menu, and then press “Enable” for the skill you want to use.
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Crystal Ball is a fortune teller skill. Alexa prompts you to first focus on a yes/no question, and then say when you’re ready to hear the answer.
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Math Puzzles is a fun way to challenge yourself and your friends. You’ll hear a series of numbers and you must guess the next logical number in the sequence.
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What’s going on this weekend? Just set your city, and then you can ask what’s going on tonight, this weekend or on a specific date. You can also ask what’s happening in another city. It’s your direct access to StubHub – just by asking Alexa.
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To get started building skills for Alexa, we recommend you review the following materials in this order: