Before we dive deep into the details of the Factly Alexa Skill, let's try to understand the reason for our choice of creating this Skill by understanding what people use voice assistants for.
In a study done by Statista on smartphone users in the UK, it was revealed that people who use voice assistants use them mainly for Amusement, which is second only to Search for general information, as shown in the following diagram:
Figure 4.1: Most common uses of voice assistantsÂ
With this insight, it is no surprise also that the lion's share of Alexa Skills on the Amazon Alexa App Store belongs to games and trivia apps:
Figure 4.2: Alexa Skills categorisation on Amazon Alexa App Store
Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, this is very similar to the distribution of apps in the smartphone market:
Figure 4.3: App domain dominance on Google Play...
