Amazon’s Alexa-powered devices are certainly the market leaders in the smart speaker category. And the more time that passes, the more useful they seem to get, thanks to developers bringing new “skills” to the devices — and even tech giants like Microsoft letting Alexa access their key services and features.
To that second point, Microsoft has just announced that Skype calling is now available via Alexa, with Amazon’s Echo hardware supporting basic Skype calling. Additionally, video calling support for Skype is coming to Amazon’s Echo Show, the company’s speaker that also sports a display.
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Skype calling and Pandora Premium arrive on Alexa devices originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 20:08:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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