28-06-2016 15:00 via theverge.com

You can enable any of Alexa’s 1400 skills just by asking for it

Amazon has just added another layer of voice control to its voice-controlled Alexa AI. Now, instead of going into the Amazon Alexa mobile app to add "skills", or app functionality, to your Amazon Echo speakers, you can just tell Alexa to add new skills for you. So, if you say, "Alexa, enable NBC News," or "Alexa, enable Fitbit" or "Alexa, enable Dad-Bot" (this is a real thing) to an Echo speaker, the smart software will add those third-party skill sets to your set up, so you can issue more voice
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