21 Stories To Learn About Alexa

Let's learn about Alexa via these 21 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. How to Hack Your Alexa using a Voice Command-SQL Injection

Based on your previous coverage of similar topics, we thought you may be interested in this recently discovered voice activation device hack, and a new technique we call Voice-Command SQL Injection.

2. R.I.P. Alexa Dot Com: You Will Be Sorely Missed

Amazon will be "retiring" Alexa.com on May 1, 2022. Why?

3. Does Speech Recognition Have Future?

Voice recognition technology is another critical element of the voice search field. After several breakthrough innovations, the circle of speech recognition has been closing since the end of the 18th century.

4. How to Build An Alexa Home Automation System

How to make an IoT-based Smart Home with Arduino IoT Cloud & Alexa using NodeMCU ESP8266 to control 4 home appliances with voice commands.

5. AI for Noobs: How Amazon Alexa Works

How Amazon Alexa AI processes and implements commands.

6. The Winter for Voice Assistants in Upon Us

Alexa, Google Home, and others have hit the skids. The early promise of voice assistants hasn't paid off. Time to pivot.

7. Alexa, Ask My Website How Many Bad Reviews I Have Today?

Requiring access to particular information in a repetitive manner is the perfect use case for voice enabled user interface.

8. I am Grootu: Creating my First Alexa Skill

As a child of the 80's I come from the age of the internet where it was similar to the wild west, only we didn't know it at the time... Men were men, women were women and girls on BBS boards were almost certainly guys in real life.

9. Voice Assistants are the Modern Day Groom of the Stool

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10. Amazon and Disney Take Voice Assistance to Magical Heights with “Hey Disney”

Amazon & Disney teamed up to launch a new voice assistant that will be live soon in the United States.

11. 5 Ways Voice Technology Can Transform Small Business in 2021

Voice technology changed the way we surf the net and interact with things. Data suggests people are trending towards voice technology & voice-enabled activities

12. Are Smart Devices Worth the Privacy Risk?

Smart devices are great. They help you search the internet with only your voice, allow you to order essentials without using your phone or computer, and let you see who's at the door. But they also do one other thing. They are listening, all the time. While Alexa is best known for this morally dubious listening, it's not just them. Google has just been shown to do the same. It seems like every smart device is listening in to your conversations. Let's talk about potential concerns and why these companies are doing this.

13. Using WordPress and Formidable Forms to Create your own Alexa Skill

Form builders are among the most popular WordPress plugins. There are dozens of them and with few having millions of active installations.

14. Covert Google Voice Into Your Own Private Bouncer Or Receptionist

In the event that you don’t have a Google Voice telephone number yet, you’re passing up a great opportunity. Google Voice has some extraordinary highlights that can help ensure your security. Also, you can keep your Google Voice telephone number forever, or for in any event insofar as Google is eager to have it.

15. How To Launch Your Podcast On Alexa Devices (Amazon, Google Nest & Apple’s HomePod)

The beauty of podcasts is that they’re incredibly portable and easy to consume. People can listen to your Podcast on Alexa devices, so here is how to start!

16. Smart Teaching: Using Alexa in The K-12 Classroom

In many K-12 classrooms, the ability to access information by saying it out loud is changing the way students experience and interpret things.

17. How to Build a Voice App in 30 Minutes

You have mastered building web apps. Maybe even building mobile apps. But what about these smart speakers that are now sitting in people's living rooms? What about our new found ability to talk to apps on our phones?

18. What You Need To Build A Custom Alexa Skill For Your Website

Do you know how many people are asking Alexa about your website/business?

19. Amazon Engineer Jackson Kelley is Working on Data Privacy in Alexa

Ex block.one consultant (and formerly ML infrastructure engineer in retail at Amazon) Jackson Kelley has been nominated for a 2020 Noonie for contributions to the sticky subject of politics here on Hacker Noon. Scroll on for a a summary of what Jackson's been doing and thinking lately, including a new YouTube series, and which of his controversial opinions most people would definitely disagree with.

20. 3 Ways to Find a Lost Phone Using Amazon Alexa

Everyone dreads losing their telephone. With Alexa and Amazon Echo, you may never need to stress over this again. There are a few diverse applications and IFTTT arrangements you can use to help find your mobile phone when you've misplaced it. Here are a couple of our top choices and how to get them set up.

21. 5 Tech Accessories That Make Alexa Smarter

1. Sonos One (Gen 2)

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