Amazon: Alexa - the most useful skills

Amazon's smart home solution, Alex, offers you many conveniences in everyday life. To help you know which skills of Amazon's artificial intelligence are most useful to you, we have compiled a list for you. This will help you discover the full potential of Alexa.

This is what Alexa can do: useful skills

With the knowledge of the most useful skills, Alexa can not only make your everyday life easier, but also give you new knowledge.

• "Alexa, what is the news?": With this question, Alexa will give you an overview of current world events in 100 seconds. This will keep you up to date with what's happening in the world around you.
• "Alexa, what's the word of the day?": This voice command gets Alexa to directly access the Duden database and provide you with the word of the day. This allows you to playfully expand your vocabulary every day. At the same time, you will receive the corresponding background information.
• "Alexa, play X music from laut.fm": Alexa's own radio players offer little music selection. Due to this, you can access the music of laut.fm and thereby listen to appropriate divisions. As soon as you say "Next", Alexa switches to a new station.
• "Alexa, ask dictionary for X on X": Alexa is also able to make translations for you. So you can easily expand your foreign language skills.

What else is there?

Similar to the App Store, there is also a whole selection of applications for Alexa, which Amazon has titled Skills. You can thereby install a wide variety of skills that fit your everyday life.