How to Launch Your Flash Briefing Skill on Amazon Alexa in Minutes?

Rajesh Bindal
Sep 1, 2018 · 4 min read
How to Create Flash Briefing Alexa Skill on GoVocal.AI

According to a recent smart speaker’s consumer survey over 39% people use smart speakers for listening news. This creates an exciting opportunity for News Channels, Influencers, Podcasters, Bloggers and Youtubers to make their content available on these smart speakers. This article will guide you to launch your own content on Alexa by creating Flash Briefing Skill.

Step 1 Log in to GoVocal.AI

Log in to GoVocal.AI and go to projects section. There you will see option to create new Project.

Step 2 Create A Project

Create new project and select the Flash Briefing Skill Template.

Step 3 Name Your Project

Give your project a name and description and save it.

Step 4 Setup Flash Briefing

One your project is created page transitions to setup screen where you can provide your skill name and setup other details of Flash Briefing Skill.

Step 5 Feed URL vs Custom Post

Choose the option to create Flash briefing using either RSS/Atom/Podcast “Feed URL” or using “Custom Post”. You can skip step 6 and directly jump to step 7 if you want to create skill using custom post.

Step 6. Create Skill using Feed URL

To create skill using “Feed URL”, just enter the feed url in the input field. You can use RSS/ATOM/Podcast url in it. Make sure that url is secure url (starts with ‘https’).

Step 7. Custom Post

To create skill using custom content choose option “Custom Post”. Select this option if you would like to post Text, Audio, Video content.

Step 8. Delpoy to Alexa

Once you have filled all the required details, Click on One-Click Deploy in bottom right corner.

Step 9 Enter Amazon Account Details

Once clicked, a pop-up will appear to Login for Amazon Developer account.

Allow permissions to manage your Alexa Skill so that we can submit the details to Alexa.

Once your skill is created you will see following notification “Skill successfully created!”

Step 10. Create Post

If you created the skill using “Custom Post” option in Step 5 above, then you can go to Posts list section in Right Side bar to create Text, Audio or Video Posts. You can also schedule the posts for future dates. If you want to repeat the previous day’s posts, then you can enable the “Repeat Mode” in setup page. This feature can come handy in case you are unable to schedule the content for a particular day or you missed scheduling the content for a day.

To know more above various ways to create and schedule Audio/Video Posts, Follow this reference documentation .

Once you have added the content/feed into your Alexa Skill you can publish this skill to Alexa Store by submitting it for review.

Congratulations, you just launched your Alexa Flash Briefing Skill in few minutes.

Got more ideas for Alexa Skill? Why not head on to GoVocal.AI and create some awesome Alexa skills in minutes using easy to use interface.

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