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Originally Posted by Catlady
Obviously it makes sense that skills to control lights and thermostats and such need to be set up, or for things that involve personal accounts, but if I want a new recipe or a game, I don't care where it comes from. Clearly I did not properly understand the whole skills thing.
Regardless, I'm on the verge of ordering the Dot. Right now I've hooked up my Fire Tablet to my home stereo and I'm having Alexa play selections by my favorite singers--so much easier than finding the relevant CDs and/or mp3 files!
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I haven't tried asking Alexa for a recipe before today. She had no clue and basically said she wasn't sure how to help me with my question. So I did some googling and see that recipes apparently require the set up of Skills. Here is a
web page I found which might help you.
I too am a novice when it comes to Alexa Skills. I too see no reason why they would be necessary to find recipes, unless you wanted recipes from a specific web site/company. But apparently a Skill or several is indeed necessary. Setting up Skills is easy, but again, it seems like more effort than they advertised Alexa would require. There are a lot of things that don't require a Skill, like asking about the weather, traffic, sports scores, play a song or radio station. But some things require Skills. I still say Amazon must hire the rejects of Silicon Valley to design and implement their devices. Logic often is lacking therein.