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Alexa, “open Arsenal and give me a match summary.” Yes, Premiere League football from Arsenal is available to through Amazon Echo.
Just in time for allergy season, allergy medicine company Zyrtec has launched an Alexa skill that shares the daily pollen count for the user’s location.
Amazon has received positive media coverage about its large number of Alexa skills that recently passed the 10,000 mark for the Amazon Echo.
Amazon’s Alexa is primarily viewed as a voice assistant for the home, but B2B companies like Teem are starting to recognize that she can also be useful in the work place.
Ford announced in the January that it would be integrating Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant into Ford cars. Separately, Starbucks announced voice ordering through Alexa in January.
Alexa skills available to U.S. users officially surpassed ten thousand today and stand at 10,016. The current count for the UK remains just over four thousand but Germans still have fewer than one thousand skills as their disposal.