Alexa For Dummies by Paul McFedries

Author:Paul McFedries
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119565796
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Enabling a Skill

If you locate a skill that looks fun, entertaining, or useful, go ahead and give it a try (hey, it’s free, remember?). To use a skill with Alexa, you must enable it.

Enabling a skill with a voice command

To enable a skill with your voice, use either of the following commands:

“Alexa, enable [skill].”

“Alexa, open [skill].”

Here, skill is the so-called invocation name of the skill: a word or phrase unique to the skill. How in the name of Jeff Bezos are you supposed to know a skill’s invocation name? That’s available on the skill’s info page, in the Skill Details section. For example, Figure 8-4 shows the Skill Details section for the popular skill Headspace: Guided Meditation for Everybody, and you can see that its invocation name is headspace.

FIGURE 8-4: See the Skill Details section to get a skill’s invocation name.

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