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Alexa, how skilled are you?

Developers are creating voice skills across use cases for Alexa. But the Amazon voice assistant’s success is tethered to the skills it has, and right now, these are inconsistent

17/10/18

Arundhati Ramanathan

In just a year Alexa India Skills store is teeming with 19,000 skills built by 40,000 developers

The skills though are repetitive (there are over 100 cat fact skills alone) and more importantly hard to find

Companies that have adopted voice skills are finding that voice cannot be used across all use cases

Building a voice skill has its share of complexities in spite of Amazon making it very easy for developers

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