Amazon 'Skill Connections' Let Alexa Skills Work Together

Using Amazon Alexa on your smart speaker to search for dinner recipes? If y'all find one you similar via the Allrecipes skill, y'all'll now exist able to seamlessly print it out on your HP printer without having to summon the HP skill.

This functionality is enabled through a new Alexa feature Amazon is testing with developers called Skill Connections, which substantially lets two dissimilar Alexa skills work together to make your life easier.

Besides HP and Allrecipies, Amazon is testing this functionality with skills from Uber and OpenTable to allow people more than easily schedule rides and book restaurant reservations. In the nigh hereafter, Epson and Catechism plan to back up Skill Connections as well.

In a weblog mail, Amazon's BJ Haberkorn explained that a gaming app might take reward of Skill Connections to allow users hands print results or leaderboards. A skill that sells show tickets, meanwhile, might leverage this functionality to assistance you book you an Uber to the theater.

In the latter case, the ticket skill would pass the theatre's address and your show fourth dimension to Uber as part of a taxi reservation request. That means y'all won't have to separately invoke the Uber skill and verbally say the accost of the theatre, saving you some time and hassle.

Developers interested in utilizing services offered by other skills or offer services for other skills to employ tin utilise to participate in this preview. Amazon says adding functionalities from other skills requires but "minimal code changes."

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's good on fitness and smart dwelling house products. Instruction yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength grooming machines, treadmills, and more. Angela likewise tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.