Edge Cases to Consider When Choosing an Invocation Name for Your Alexa Skill
An Alexa skill’s invocation name is the word or short phrase that is used to launch a skill. Great invocation names are memorable and...
Ninety7 Sky Tote Portable Battery Base review: Take your second-gen Amazon Echo anywhere
Amazon’s decision to design its second-generation Amazon Echo smart speaker with a removable sleeve makes the device customizable. But there’s a hidden feature I...
Best Practices for Building Alexa Smart Home Camera Skills
Low latency is a key contributor to customer satisfaction with smart home camera skills. Customers who connect their smart home cameras and doorbells to Alexa...
Roku and Amazon have different ideas about over-the-air DVR
Antennas are making a big comeback as more people cut cable TV, but that doesn’t mean over-the-air DVR is going mainstream along with them.Last...
Amazon’s Alexa now handles patient health information
Today, Amazon announced that six health care companies and providers will allow customers to access some of their personalized medical information by...
The Vortex, an Alexa Game Skill from Doppio, Delivers a Double Shot of Customer...
After working in the games industry for years, Jeferson Valadares and Chris Barnes were quick to recognize voice technology as the next major...
Innovations from the 2018 Alexa Prize
March 4 marked the kickoff of the third Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge, in which university teams build socialbots capable of conversing on a...