Ever since the launch of the first Amazon Echo in 2014, the company has been trying to turn Alexa Skills into a new way to use a voice assistant — and apps.
The first Amazon Echo, all the way back in 2014, was pitched as a device for a few simple things: playing music, asking basic questions, getting the weather. Since then, Amazon has found a few new things for people to do, like control smart home devices. But a decade later, Alexa is still mostly for playing music, asking basic questions, and getting the weather.
As it has turned out, many of the most popular Alexa skills have two things in common: they’re simple Q&A games, and they’re made by a company called Volley. From Song Quiz to Jeopardy to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Volley is one of the companies that has figured out how to make skills that really work.
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