Just picked up an Amazon Echo device? Then you'll be itching to discover what it can do. Play music? Check. Answer questions? Check. But as the 30 best Alexa skills (skills being similar to apps), ...

Amazon to End Program That Pays Developers to Create Alexa Skills The program, which dates back to 2017, offers free AWS credits and monthly checks to Amazon app developers with popular Alexa Skills.

Recent studies show that over half of smart speaker owners are actively listening to local radio through their devices. In response to the increasing number of smart speaker owners using devices like ...

Amazon has rolled out for general availability an Alexa Radio Skills Kit (RSK) console for radio broadcasters. What does this mean? The RSK console provides radio stations “with an easier way of ...

In another sign that Amazon is changing course with Alexa, the company has warned developers that it will soon stop paying them to build Alexa skills. As spotted by Bloomberg, Amazon posted a notice ...

Streaming on Alexa just got easier for radio broadcasters. Amazon has launched the Alexa Radio Skills Kit (RSK) console. RSK allows broadcasters to offer improved user interaction without needing to ...

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...