Amazon Echo gets customizable voice commands thanks to deeper IFTTT integration

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While Amazon’s Echo can tell you about traffic and control your smart-home devices, users haven’t had much ability to develop their own commands for Alexa. But thanks to an improved integration with IFTTT, users can start building their very own voice commands to do everything from sending emails to finding a lost phone. IFTTT (which stands for “if this, then that”) automates interactions between various internet services. Users build “recipes” to connect actions taken on one service (say, liking a tweet) with an automatic action on another service (say, adding that tweet to a Google Doc). The Echo already had some… Read More
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