Amazon’s Alexa voice service is now open for third-parties to use in their products

Amazon is making Alexa – the voice assistant technology powering its Echo device – open to thirds party developers and manufacturers with a new set of software tools and $100 million in funding to support developers, manufacturers and startups. The Alexa Skills Kit is a collection of APIs and tools aimed at making it easy for developers to add features to Alexa. Amazon says that with a few lines of code, developers should be able to integrate existing web services into Alexa – or create completely new experiences within a few hours. Amazon says developers will need no experience with…

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