No Longer Have to Enable a Skill to Use it.

[malliekm]

From Cnet...
You no longer have to manually enable Alexa skills before you use them. Just tell Alexa to open a new skill and it will find, enable and open it with a single command.

[starrin]

From Cnet...
You no longer have to manually enable Alexa skills before you use them. Just tell Alexa to open a new skill and it will find, enable and open it with a single command.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-echo-you-can-now-use-any-alexa-skill-without-enabling-it-first/

[AlanH]

Good to know.

[Alpha Bitch]

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-echo-you-can-now-use-any-alexa-skill-without-enabling-it-first/

"Unfortunately, this doesn't address one of the problems that came to light when Amazon added the ability to enable skills by voice: you still need to know the name of a skill or what you're looking for to be able to use it. So while this is a step in the right direction for getting more people to use skills, it still means you'll probably spend your time in the Alexa app looking for new skills rather than blurting out random skills to try."[/size]

 

[renegade600]

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-echo-you-can-now-use-any-alexa-skill-without-enabling-it-first/

"Unfortunately, this doesn't address one of the problems that came to light when Amazon added the ability to enable skills by voice: you still need to know the name of a skill or what you're looking for to be able to use it. So while this is a step in the right direction for getting more people to use skills, it still means you'll probably spend your time in the Alexa app looking for new skills rather than blurting out random skills to try."[/size]

 

are you trying to say you do not have the ability to guess the skills  :-P

[coyote]

I for one do NOT want Alexa to deploy skills without my authorization. Last thing I need is for some wisea$$ relative to say "alexa, order me a pizza"