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Monday, March 12, 2018

Alexa Stain Detective

Have been exploring alternative skills and their distribution by type on various voice driven assistants.   Found  the 'Tide Stain Remover',  as an Alexa Skill.   Based originally in part on some content in the book:   'Clean it fast, Clean it Right',  by Jeff Bredenberg.   Written by our AI team, long ago.

On a historical note this was originally written in a form that was delivered via a CD Rom in pre common Internet days, then converted to an App that ran under popular smartphone OS's.   It now runs on the Amazon Alexa system via voice interaction.   I also found that the IOS app version has stopped working after about IOS version 9.0, says it needs to be upgraded, which is not good  publicity.    Either fix it or remove it.

The skill idea was used as an early model for Constructing query -> Subtasks-> Cautions->Tasks  -> Solution Models.    By our AI team and later  P&G Productions.

If anyone has more knowledge of its more recent history, contact me and I will be glad to update its history in the Service Skills domain.

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