How to Customize Alexa Responses: Skills to Get More Out of it

Alexa skills are one of its least explored and exploited features of Amazon’s smart speaker. However, these small accessories can be very useful and there is practically everything. What we show you now is how to make Alexa respond exactly what you want when you ask her about something specific.

Alexa skills

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Alexa has a section of skills that for many is still quite unknown. In it you can find additional functions that allow you to perform actions or obtain specific information such as recipes, ambient sounds, games and a wide variety of options.

So it is important to take a look and explore a little from time to time, because it is the most interesting way to take advantage of the speaker and not stay in a product to ask the classic questions and requests. If you don’t, you’re going to keep using the speaker, but you can also risk getting bored with it.

As we already saw when we talk about creative uses for light bulbs , if you give it imagination there are many additional possibilities. So go ahead and create your own Skill. And if you want to start now, do it with this one that we offer you.

Make Alexa respond what you want

Alexa skill Q&A

How can you make Alexa respond exactly what you want, because there are several options. On the one hand with the Custom Q&A skill . You can find this by accessing the Skill Blueprints website, although at the moment this Alexa service is available for United States and United Kingdom accounts. So if you have accounts, or want to create an account there, you can take advantage of this option, as long as you don’t do other things for which the account in your country is essential for you. Such as purchases through the speaker or the like.

If it allows you to use the service, the process is as simple as you will see below:

  • The first thing is to access and select the Custom Q&A template
  • When accessing its template you will see a simple explanation of how it works and what you should do
  • Enter the main question and possible variations it may have
  • Then set the answer you want
  • Click to create a new Skill and select the name

Done, in a matter of minutes you will have your skill fully functional. Now you just have to launch it and start using it.

How to take advantage of these questions and answers

Taking advantage of this question and answer skill is very simple. You can start with creating your own trivia games, or you can also use it to your advantage when you want to turn to Alexa to decide what time your children should or should not go to sleep. If they are used to using it, it can be a lot of fun.

Or, for example, you can also take the opportunity to create a questionnaire with all those common questions that your friends ask you when they are at home. What if there is such a thing, if you have to cut the pizza, wine bottle opener or anything else that you are tired of answering. You could even use it in case you rent a house and want your tenants to find useful information during their stay.

By the way, if you want to manage the Skills you have installed, you just have to access this section of the Amazon website or the application from your mobile device where you have installed it.