Skype on Alexa

Microsoft announced in September that Skype calling

would come to devices with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant

by the end of this year, and it’s finally made good on that

Promise.

Amazon today confirmed to The Verge that starting this

week, Alexa users will be able to make outgoing Skype

voice and video calls, accept incoming calls, and make

calls to domestic and international numbers via Skype’s

eponymous SkypeOut service. Saying something like

“Alexa, call John on Skype” or “Alexa, call 217-804-7734

on Skype” will place a call, while answering an incoming

call is as easy as responding “Alexa, answer.”