AWS Certified – Alexa Skill Builder
We are pleased to announce that our VP of Marketing, Caroline Dunn, passed her AWS Certification as an Alexa Skill Builder.
Alexa on my face is here! Echo Frames Review
In this article, I will detail my journey to purchase and obtain the exclusive Echo Frames from Amazon. I will discuss what Echo Frames does, how it works, and if I recommend Echo Frames. This is an unbiased review as I paid for Echo Frames out of my pocket.
Creating a Multi-language Alexa Skill
Did you know that Alexa can speak English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Italian, and Japanese? Furthermore, Alexa recognizes linguistic differences / languages variations by country. For example, Alexa has language variations for English for the countries: USA, UK, Australia, India, and Canada.
In this post, I will discuss Alexa Skills from a multi-language perspective from the perspective of an Alexa Skill developer.
Alexa Skill FAQs
In this post, I will discuss the basics of Alexa Skills for a non-technical perspective.
• What is an Alexa Skill and why should I care?
• How to name your Alexa Skill according to Amazon’s guidelines
• Minimum things you need to get started creating an Alexa Skill
• Can I create an Alexa Skill without coding?
• Most often asked question about Alexa Skills
What is an Alexa Skill and why should I care?
An Alexa Skill is similar to an app on your smartphone. You can enable and disable skills with your voice, most skills (if they have a unique name) come enabled by default. The vast majority of Alexa Skills are created by 3rd party developers, not Amazon.
Is Failing Fast a Sign? Automating the Build of Voice Applications.
For the past 30 years, I’ve been fascinated by all the new ways to automate our lives. And in the last 10 years, many of those new ways have become commonplace. Doorbell cameras, watches that send health data to our …..
Google’s Response to Alexa Live
In response to Amazon’s Alexa Live 4-hour virtual event on May 2, 2019, Google has started to ramp up their 3rd party developer partnerships. To level-set, to develop an ‘app’ for Alexa is called a “Skill.” To develop an app …..
Alexa Live Recap
On May 2, 2019, Amazon hosted their first Alexa Live 1/2 day virtual event for Alexa developers featuring 4 tracks and 4 hours of Alexa development content. I was thrilled that this was a free and virtual event, requiring no …..
Voice: The Next Frontier (Guest Podcast)
Caroline Dunn, VP of Marketing, was recently a guest on the Cornerstone Media Podcast. Listen to her guest podcasts below:
Featured on Hypepotamous
Our VP of Marketing, Caroline Dunn, was featured on Hypepotamous (an Atlanta media outlet) as the only woman Finalist in the Amazon Alexa Multimodal competition. Please check out the full article here.
Top Innovator Award
Alexa Dev Group received the Top Innovator award on March 21, 2019. Presentation below: