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Here's the full list of Cortana skills available currently

By Ng Chong Seng - on 11 May 2017, 2:58am

Here's the full list of Cortana skills available currently

In case you missed it, Microsoft has announced today at the Build conference that the Cortana Skills Kit is now available in the U.S. as a public preview.

A number of partners have already started developing skills for Cortana, and some of the first skills are now made available here. According to Microsoft, many of these skills work best on Windows 10 Creators Edition, in addition to Android and iOS.

I've counted 46 skills in this current list, but this number will no doubt grow (especially when HomeHub arrives). Prominent ones at the moment include Dark Sky, OpenTable, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, VentureBeat News, and Akinator.

As I've said before, competing with Amazon’s Alexa on the skills front has proven to be an uphill battle for Cortana. More than 12,000 skills are already available for Alexa, and Amazon has just announced updates to the Alexa Skills Kit for optimizing the experience on the touchscreen Echo Show.

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