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skill

skill

47 4.8
A program for a voice assistant or smart speaker that does one task when you ask it
  • noun
  • /skɪl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : skill (aplicación para asistentes virtuales)
  • Adding a parent-training component to Skill-Builders in order to reinforce the curriculum might also enhance student outcomes.

I'm tripling Downing on my podcast and on my Alexa skills.

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Examples

  • Our achievements in space represent not only the height of technological skill... they also reflect the best in our country... our character, the capacity for creativity and sacrifice... and a willingness to reach into the unknown.

  • Finally, exercises based on motor skill training were prescribed to reorganize cortical plasticity and achieve motor learning.

    Academic text (2017)
  • I test Alexa skills even though they're not real yet.

  • Believe that podcasting and Alexa skills and the Google Home platform.

  • So with real people and they can use AI, think it's called the social bot skill on their Alexa devices.

  • Now we need to find our the Arduino skill and you do that by searching for Arduino which will result there.

  • The Writing Fluency subtest measures skill in writing simple sentences quickly within 7 minutes.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Well, I thought, why not use my computational skills to prepare a paper on Johannes Kepler's early calculations?

    Academic text (1999)
  • Driver Marcus Gutierrez is a trained Navy medic, a skill set that hopefully won't be needed.

  • When I asked my virtual assistant to play music, it used a specific skill to connect to my favorite streaming service.

Synonyms

capability
vsskill
473 3.6

Ability to do something or develop a skill

is a specific software module run by virtual assistants when invoked by users

Compounds

communication skill
  • Specialized
16 2.6

To share ideas and feelings clearly with other people

To guide and manage a group to reach goals

8 2.5

An ability needed to do a particular job or to get a job

To make clear, correct text that others can read and understand

To prepare and cook food well

To tell stories in a way that keeps people interested

job skill
  • Jargon
1 3.5

An ability a video game character has from their chosen role to do special actions

The ability to protect yourself from physical harm using simple fighting moves

A very high level of ability better than most people have

A skill that works well after being used in hard situations

buttonology skill
  • Specialized
9.9

To sew and attach buttons neatly on clothes

To use both hands equally well, for example when writing or playing an instrument

To make people want to buy clothes or accessories

To blow fuel from your mouth and light it to make a flame for a show

9.9

A clumsy level of skill that appears in games like chess

tonsorial skill
  • Archaic
9.9

Being good at cutting and styling hair

How Capable

to service
43 3.4
application program
  • Specialized
1 3.2
skill
  • Specialized
47 4.8
to action
  • Jargon
1 4.7
command
  • Specialized
392 3.7

Surface Forms

skill singular
skills plural

Etymology

Skill for voice assistants comes from the normal meaning of skill as a 'ability', because these small programs give the assistant a new action like telling the weather or booking a ride. So a skill on your smart speaker is simply a small program that gives the device a new 'ability'.