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Skill Review: Guess The Animal

Guess the Animal is an educational, trivia-style skill developed by Spitfire Game Studios LLC. Though it is a skill ideal for kids, it enhances both kids’ and adults’ knowledge about animals and their habitat. This fun yet scholastic game attempts to enlighten curious minds and motivate them with substantial facts that are often overlooked in the midst of oceanic facts. The Alexa-powered interactive game seems specially crafted for individuals and families who are likely to enjoy playing while being intellectually illuminated.

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Skill Review: Surf Now

Surf Now, an Alexa-powered voice skill developed by Marcus Molchany renders surf forecasts and reports for select spots located in the city of Los Angeles. The skill comes as a boon to many surfers who are always on the lookout for reports related to the surf spots such as information on off-shore winds, the ocean waves, and swell models that will help predict the surf conditions in the area they have chosen to explore. All of the data supported in this skill are powered by Magicseaweed, a popular surf forecasting platform.

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Skill Review: Western River Flows

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.

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Skill Review: Sesame Street

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.

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Skill Review: Snow Report

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.

Skill Review: Speak Spell

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.

Skill Review: Magic Jinn

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.

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Why brands need voice technology to stay ahead

Brands need voice technology to create more personal engagement with customers and a voice strategy can improve customer experience. Enterprises are increasingly getting conscious about deploying the latest technologies to solve business problems. The stakeholders are exploring newer methodologies to retain and grow the customer base. One such technology, breaking the barriers of business communication is voice …

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Skill Review: Beach Tycoon

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.

Skill Review: My Pet Rock

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.