Alexa Skills Kit

Alexa Skills

Alexa is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon, made popular by the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot devices developed by Amazon Lab126. It is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and other real time information, such as news. Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation system.

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Alexa Routines Are Now Shareable

The Routines feature enables users to consolidate tasks into a single voice command of their choosing.

Kuldeep Singh Sep 18, 2020

Getting A Mobile Number In An Alexa Skill

In this article on custom Alexa skills, I am going to demonstrate how to get a user’s mobile number for use in a custom Alexa skill.

Abhishek Yadav Sep 12, 2020

Getting An Email Address In An Alexa Skill

In this article on custom Alexa skills, I am going to demonstrate how to get a user’s email address for use in a custom Alexa skill.

Abhishek Yadav Sep 12, 2020

Getting A Username In An Alexa Skill

In this article on custom Alexa skills, I am going to demonstrate how to get a user’s name for use in a custom Alexa skill

Abhishek Yadav Sep 11, 2020

Amazon Brings Alexa Print

Alexa Print is Alexa-enabled printing feature that allows Echo device owners to use voice commands to print out documents.

Kuldeep Singh Sep 11, 2020

Creating Custom Food Fact Skill Using Fact Skill Template

In this article, I am demonstrating how to use a fact skill template to create a custom food fact skill.

Abhishek Yadav Sep 05, 2020

Creating An Alexa Skill That Calls An API

In this article, I am creating a custom Alexa skill that calls an external API to fetch information.

Abhishek Yadav Sep 02, 2020

Creating A Custom Random Dessert Skill Using Alexa Hosted NodeJS

in this article, a custom Alexa skill has been created which fetches a random dessert for the user.

Abhishek Yadav Aug 30, 2020

Slot Values Comparison Using Comparison Operators In Alexa Skill

In this article, a custom skill is created and comparison triple equals operator is used to compare slot value and execute statements accordingly.

Abhishek Yadav Aug 27, 2020

Creating Custom Rock Paper Scissor Game Alexa Skill Using Alexa Hosted NodeJS

in this article, i have created a custom rock paper scissor game alexa skill.

Abhishek Yadav Aug 25, 2020

Creating Custom Restaurant Reservation Alexa Skill Using Alexa Hosted NodeJS

In this article, i have demonstrated on how to create custom alexa skill using alexa hosted node.js

Abhishek Yadav Aug 21, 2020

Creating Custom Birthdate Alexa Skill Using Alexa Hosted NodeJS

In this article, i am demonstrating on how to create custom alexa skill.

Abhishek Yadav Aug 20, 2020

How To Add Beta Testers To Test An Alexa Skill

Learn how to add a list of beta testers to your Alexa skill to test the skill.

Mahesh Chand Aug 17, 2020

Slots in Alexa and How to Use Them

This blog is about declaring and using Alexa slots. You will see lambda code to read slot values.

Akash Nagina Apr 22, 2020

Policies For Submitting Alexa Skills

In this article, we will be discussing guidelines for publishing skills on Alexa.

Pradeep Yadav Nov 20, 2019

SSML In Alexa Skill Kit - Part Two

In this article, we will learn about SSML in Alexa Skill Kit.

Pradeep Yadav Nov 12, 2019

SSML in Alexa Skill Kit

In this blog, we will learn about SSML in the Alexa Skill Kit.

Pradeep Yadav Nov 11, 2019

Managing Attributes in Alexa Skill Kit

In this article, we will learn about the Alexa Skill Kit. The Alexa Skills Kit is a software development kit (SDK) that enables a developer to build skills.

Pradeep Yadav Nov 06, 2019

Introduction To Voice User Experience Design

Not just a primer on designing the voice interaction model for Alexa; this article covers invocation names, intents, utterances, and slots, as well as, practical lessons learned from deploying Alex...

John Iwasz Jan 16, 2019

Use Alexa Without An Echo Device

Don't have an Echo and want to use an Alexa skill? No problem. This article shows you methods for using Alexa even if you don't have the Echo device. Have you developed an Amazon skill and ...

John Iwasz Nov 28, 2018

Amazon Announces Alexa-hosted Skills Preview

Amazon’s Alexa team just made easier for Alexa skill developers to build, publish, and test their Alexa skills without spending too much time on getting AWS accounts and setting up back end services.

Mahesh Chand Nov 16, 2018

How To Debug An Alexa .NET Core Skill

This article illustrates best practices for debugging and testing .NET Core Alexa Skills.

John Iwasz Nov 13, 2018

Publishing An Alexa Skill (Synonyms Finder) To Alexa Skill Store - Part Three

In this article, I will explain the process of publishing an Alexa skill to Alexa store.

Datta Sai Krishna Sep 07, 2018

Creating An Alexa Skill (Synonyms Finder) - Part Two - AWS Lambda Function And Integration

In this part-2 of article we shall learn how we can create a AWS Lambda function and integrate it with Alexa skill. We will also learn how we can call external API within our AWS Lambda function an...

Datta Sai Krishna Aug 12, 2018

Develop And Deploy Alexa Skills With Visual Studio Code Extension

Now developers who are using the Visual Code editor can create and deploy Alexa skills with an open source extension published by Amazon Alexa dev team.

Riya Joshi Aug 11, 2018