Here Are All the New Alexa Skills and Features Announced by Amazon

Amazon has announceda plethora of new smart devicespowered by its voice-assistant Alexa, such as the Echo Plus,Echo Dot, Echo Show,Echo Auto, and more. As part of all these new refreshed products, the company also highlighted how smart Alexa has become, and in the quest to make it even smarter, Amazon has announced a ton ofnew skillsfor Alexa along with some developer tools.

Alexa has got plenty of new features, many of which are available later this year. These new features range from security to entertainment.

Additionally, the company has announced Tidal support for Echo devices later this year. Apart from that, developers interested in building their own array of Alexa-powered devices will have some new tools to work with thanks to the arrival of a software development kit and a hardware reference design introduced by Amazon.

The company unveiled theAlexa Presentation Language, which is basically a new design language that will help developers build and arrange their own skills on Alexa devices with a screen. The Alexa Presentation Language dictates how Alexa skills should work on screens, providing guidance around text size, slideshow displays, and layout design for developers, among other things.

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