Despite having Amazon Echo speakers and Alexa-enabled gadgets for years, many people are unaware of Alexa Skills. Alexa Skills are more like an app that brings all sorts of additional, useful, and fun abilities and features to Amazon’s smart voice assistant. It opens up a list of new commands and responses that makes it interesting to use the Alexa voice assistant. Since it is easy to create new skills for Alexa, developers continue updating and adding fun to the technology. You can enable and disable these skills at any time with the help of the Alexa app. You can add as many skills as you like. If you are interested in testing some exceptional skills on the voice assistant, then take cues from the following list:

Enable Chewbacca Chat

The Chewbacca Chat is an unofficial Star Wars skill that brings Wookie’s dulcet tones to your Alexa voice assistant. Start this skill by saying, “Alexa, open Chewbacca Chat,” and tell it something related to the movie to see the assistant respond with some of Chewbacca’s best lines. You can even ask it questions, and Alexa might respond to you with a translation of Chewie’s answer. You can also test your Star Wars knowledge by finding the six hidden Easter eggs. All you have to say is, “Alexa, ask Chewbacca Chat to tell me about the Easter eggs.”

Cell Phone Finder

This skill is immensely useful for people who tend to forget where they have kept their phone or misplace it quite often. The Cell Phone Finder skill requires a setup process to find your phone in the time of need. Once the setup is complete, you can ask, “Alexa, start Cell Phone Finder.” Your phone will start ringing. It can even work when you put your phone in silent or Do Not Disturb mode, but you can make more changes in the Settings. You can check detailed information on the skill page.

Filter Bubble

When you are having a bad or tough day and want to hear ‘yes’ to everything you say and believe is right, use the Filter Bubble skill. It will also help you know that you and your thoughts and beliefs are never wrong. It is a virtual ‘yes’ man. Open the skill by saying “Alexa, open Filter Bubble” and say everything you are thinking about and believe in, and it will respond with positive affirmation on your opinions. Fortunately, your voice assistant is not listening or recording you ranting about an argument with a friend and is rather trying to help you feel better about your thoughts by saying, “You are so right!”

My Pet Cat

If you are tired of rejection from your parents to allow you to have a pet cat or are not ready to foster a cat but want a fur baby, use the My Pet Cat skill. This skill will give you a personalized virtual feline. You can start by saying, “Alexa, open My Pet Cat,” and then begin choosing your cat’s color and give a name to it. You can even feed the cat and bathe it and take it for long walks (virtually, of course) or let it take a nap for a while. You can ask the skill to take you on an adventure with your virtual cat. Like normal cats, your virtual feline will also learn new skills and grow as time goes by. It will feel like having a real cat without vet bills, broken household items, and the physical presence of a cat to annoy your siblings.

Skyrim – Special Edition

This skill is brought to you by Bethesda Games Studios. They claim to have brought “the version of Skyrim you never saw coming… on a platform you never asked for.” You can start this skill by saying, “Alexa, open Skyrim,” and the game will begin. The developers have ensured that you can burn spiders, chase butterflies, climb a mountain, and use other exciting moves to win the game. This basic adventure game is set in the Skyrim universe. The game also includes incredible magic, sounds, rattling swords, and more.

These features or skills might seem a little bizarre, but these can brighten up your day, or you can act smart in front of kids and surprise them with the sound effects these skills offer. There are many useful features on the Alexa Skill page that you can add, enable, and disable at any point in time. Adding Alexa Skills to your Echo will bring your gadgets and services to life.

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