I wrote Alexa skills for personal, household use, but it was hard to find use cases that audio was faster than scanning a list of things like others had mentioned.
My wife and I are NASCAR fans so I did have a skill where you could just ask "what's the weather at the track" and, based on today's date it would know where the next race was and give back weather for that location. But beyond the things mentioned here, other places have scaled back their free APIs for things like weather and other useful services.
What really killed the interest was the nagging feeling that we had that Alexa was listening more than it should, so we keep it off most of the time so you have to go to it, have it listen, ask your question then turn listening back off.
My wife and I are NASCAR fans so I did have a skill where you could just ask "what's the weather at the track" and, based on today's date it would know where the next race was and give back weather for that location. But beyond the things mentioned here, other places have scaled back their free APIs for things like weather and other useful services.
What really killed the interest was the nagging feeling that we had that Alexa was listening more than it should, so we keep it off most of the time so you have to go to it, have it listen, ask your question then turn listening back off.