{"id":70731,"date":"2017-07-06T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/amazons-alexa-has-gained-14000-skills-in-the-last-year-amzn"},"modified":"2017-07-21T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T07:20:10","slug":"amazons-alexa-has-gained-14000-skills-in-the-last-year-amzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/amazons-alexa-has-gained-14000-skills-in-the-last-year-amzn","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Alexa has gained 14,000 skills in the last year (AMZN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazons-alexa-has-gained-14000-skills-in-the-last-year-amzn2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s Alexa is gaining knowledge at a rapid clip.<\/p>\n<p>The voice assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/de\/blogs\/alexa\/post\/50d2ed06-6a81-415c-a842-b335c7f967df\/build-skills-for-echo-show-new-alexa-skills-kit-features-for-display-and-video-interfaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now has<\/a> more than 15,000 \u201cskills\u201d (Amazon\u2019s term for voice-based apps), nearly all of them created in the little more than two years since Amazon opened Alexa to outside developers. That is boatloads more than the number of apps available for Alexa\u2019s chief rivals, Google Assistant and Microsoft\u2019s Cortana, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voicebot.ai\/2017\/07\/02\/amazon-alexa-skill-count-passes-15000-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent Voicebot data<\/a>. And all those skills make Alexa able to do more tasks than its peers.<\/p>\n<p>But Amazon\u2019s \u201carms-wide-open\u201d strategy means that, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-echo-features-tips-tricks-2017-1?utm_source=markets&utm_medium=ingest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">every useful skill<\/a> its assistant gains, it gets three skills dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dalexa-skills&field-keywords=egg+facts&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling you egg facts<\/a>. What\u2019s more, Alexa is the dumbest of the major assistants when it comes to answering general knowledge questions, according <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/siri-vs-google-assistant-cortana-alexa-knowledge-study-chart-2017-6?utm_source=markets&utm_medium=ingest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to a recent study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/amazon-alexa-how-many-skills-chart-2017-7-1002150166?utm_content=buffer6820d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-finance\">http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/amazon-alexa-...er-finance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s Alexa is gaining knowledge at a rapid clip. The voice assistant now has more than 15,000 \u201cskills\u201d (Amazon\u2019s term for voice-based apps), nearly all of them created in the little more than two years since Amazon opened Alexa to outside developers. That is boatloads more than the number of apps available for Alexa\u2019s chief [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70816,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70731\/revisions\/70816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}