Zynga launches voice game Words With Friends Word Pop for Amazon Alexa

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 17, 2020
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Zynga has launched Words With Friends Word Pop as a new voice game for Amazon Alexa. The launch on Alexa-enabled devices is part of Zynga’s experimentation with new ways to make games more accessible. You can play with voice commands on Alexa-enabled devices such as the Echo, Echo Show, or Echo Dot.

Voice is a new frontier for games that is being explored by companies such as Doppio Games, a Portugal-based startup that teamed up with Netflix to create a voice-controlled game called The 3% Challenge. Drivetime is also making interactive audio games for the car.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.