Mayo Clinic Introduces Skill For Amazon’s Alexa About COVID-19

Mayo Clinic has launched a new skill for Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, to provide consumers with the latest information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Users with an Alexa-enabled device, such as Amazon Echo and Echo Dot, can enable the skill "Mayo Clinic Answers on COVID-19" to get information from Mayo Clinic experts on the pandemic and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Alexa skills are voice-activated applications that add capabilities to Alexa-enabled devices and mobile devices with speech-recognition technology. To access "Mayo Clinic Answers on COVID-19," consumers . . .