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by cepth 3101 days ago
Wolfram Alpha actually has a pretty significant collection of “widgets” (http://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/). These are commonly embedded on math and science related pages. The more clever widgets take full advantage of Wolfram Alpha’s NLP abilities.

As to why they didn’t have Alexa-style voice skills, I’m not sure speech recognition is a core competency of the company.