How Alexa Skills can improve your writing and stoke your motivation
The Amazon Echo software offers an array of prompts, inspirational thoughts and linguistic course corrections for casual scribes and professional communicators alike.
Do you have an Amazon Echo?
If so, you might well have enabled a bunch of different skills to extend Alexa’s capabilities. (Skills are like apps for Alexa.)
Even if you don’t have an Echo, you can use Alexa on your smartphone—and you can enable skills there, too.
How to enable (install) Alexa Skills
You can enable and disable skills using the Alexa app or a web browser. Many third-party companies have created skills that you can install, and these are normally free to enable (though you may have the option to make in-skill purchases).
(You can find out all about Alexa Skills on Amazon here.) If you want to get better at writing in English (or if you’re a strong writer but want to get more writing done), there are plenty of Alexa skills out there that can help you.
Here are 10 to try:
Alexa Skills to boost your vocabulary and improve your grammar
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