The ecobee and plex skills on Echo are actual skills, and the commands to use them feel very natural to me. I don't have any smart lights, but I know people that do and the commands are very natural. I also don't have a GH, but I imagine the actions use language that is as natural as possible. Is your complaint that sometimes you have to use the name of a product/service in order for it to understand?

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And it's not like anyone is ever going to install hundreds of skills so that it's impossible to remember how to do things.
Another reason people don't really use them.

What are you even talking about at this point? I take your position to be that having thousands of skills available is somehow a bad thing because something something hard to use. My point is that any given household might only need a dozen or so skills. So it's not like you have to remember some arcane command or obscure skill name in order to do anything. Instead, you just use natural language to say what you want to happen.

I really don't see the problem.

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Posted by bbap

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Posted on 5/9/17 at 12:19 pm to Korkstand

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Is your complaint that sometimes you have to use the name of a product/service in order for it to understand?

For HA i do not. Like i said it is natural. But for silly little recipe skills/actions as an example it loses its luster when you have to tell the assistant to access that skill/action first.

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Posted by bbap

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Posted on 5/9/17 at 12:21 pm to Korkstand

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What are you even talking about at this point? I take your position to be that having thousands of skills available is somehow a bad thing because something something hard to use. My point is that any given household might only need a dozen or so skills. So it's not like you have to remember some arcane command or obscure skill name in order to do anything. Instead, you just use natural language to say what you want to happen.

I really don't see the problem.

My point is saying one has 10,000 skills is somehow better than another have 1,000 skills is pointless. They dont get used. There are probably 10-20 skills that both have that are used by 90% of customers. Outside of that its just garbage/fluff.

And even the ones that do get used some are pretty pointless for a lot of people.

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