Skill Review

Western River Flows is an interactive voice skill developed by Rgeorge to aid users to fetch useful data concerning the river flows for a select list of popular rivers. The skill particularly focuses on the rivers in the Rocky Mountain West and delivers the necessary river flow information surrounding this location. With this app, users can inquire about river flow on the Snake River or the Green River below Flaming Gorge from among the many rivers the skill is updated on.

Sesame Street is a delightful Alexa-powered voice skill developed by Sesame workshop whose mission is “to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder”. This interactive voice app features Elmo, one of the most famous characters, a.k.a a furry red Muppet monster who features in the famous television series, ‘Sesame Street’. The crux of the skill is that Elmo with his falsetto voice hosts the game to educate and entertain kids.

Snow Report is an Alexa voice skill developed by Hilde Apps to inform skiers as well as interested parties on the weather conditions and snow reports. The most sought-after data during ski season often revolves around inquiries regarding daily snow and weather patterns. So to allow visitors to ski or snowboard, the aforementioned information comes as a life-saver for resorts that will help them plan accordingly.

Speak Spell is an interactive, Alexa-powered educational voice app developed by Cynthia Balusek. This entertaining voice skill has been specially crafted for aspiring learners who are always on the lookout to edify themselves. Speak Spell can be a boon to parents who want their kids to build a proper English vocabulary. The Alexa app has sourced its word lists from the original Speak and Spell hardware.

This alluring game is certainly engaging as it tests the spelling of a number of commonly misspelled words. What’s more interesting is that it presents the original four levels of difficulty thereby allowing students to explore, and test their aural and learning skills.

Magic Jinn is a uniquely crafted Alexa-powered voice app by Zanzoon that attempts at simulating telepathic gameplay. This interactive voice skill aims at guessing the animal that the user is thinking of by asking a series of questions. The game tries to lure its eager players by boasting to know hundreds of animals, both living and extinct, and even those that have never existed. All that is expected of the user is to answer in the affirmative as “Yes” or negate with a “No” to the questions the skill tosses at its users hoping to crack which animal is on their minds.

Beach tycoon, a voice-first gaming treat developed by Stebhan Rebhan is a memorable reminder of the Theme Park on the 3DO video game system. The Alexa skill, crafted as a real-time construction game offers users the ability to turn a small beach into a lucrative tourist magnet by attracting a horde of customers. Fundamentally, the crux of the gameplay aims at urging players to think carefully and make the right investments and financial decisions to scale the ranking of the beach to the very top.

My Pet Rock is a riveting Alexa skill developed by Alexander King to engage players and rouse their interest to own a pet, rear it and have fun growing with it. The voice app kickstarts by letting users pick up a shiny new rock for themselves. The unique skill is tailored to the extent that players can choose a color for the rock and name it thereby weaving an emotional connection for the users with their newly owned pets.

My Mission (Detective Game Part I & II) is an imaginatively creative Alexa skill developed by NordicSkills. Its innovative take to offer users the chance to be the detective or rather the voice in the head of the investigator seems interesting enough to lure the audience-driven to this thrilling genre. The voice integrated Alexa detective game offers players the golden opportunity to take the lead role of Steven Brown, a private detective, and control his actions by using their voice.

Cruise Planners is an Alexa integrated voice app specially developed in-house by Cruise Planners to impart a high-tech solution for its clients. The idea behind the making of this innovative voice app is to connect consumers with their personal Cruise planners’ travel agents. Clients can benefit from enabling the skill and entering their My Trips login when prompted, connecting them with knowledgeable agents to support them with requisite trip details, vacation highlights, payment information, etc.

Teach Me Spanish is an interactive, language-specific Alexa skill developed by Status Quack to allure polyglots as well as learners interested in a singular target language. Though the learning segment is totally up to the user, what this voice app can do is coach users on Spanish vocabulary and its English version. No matter where the learner is based, Alexa is up and ready to engage and tutor with over 2000 Spanish words.