Alexa Skills

Set up Voice Notifications on Alexa to get timely alerts about meetings — Overview Being a consultant, I often have to maintain multiple mailboxes provided by different clients. In addition to this, I also have my personal emails which have meetings scheduled for my personal life; with my doctors for example. It is difficult to look at all of these calendars and remember…

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One advance I was so excited about with Alexa Skills many years ago was the introduction of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tags. With these tags, you could change the prosody, speed, and other characteristics of the speech in your Alexa Skill. …

A step-by-step guide to creating a conversational Alexa AI skill with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Voiceflow. Creating an Alexa skill can be an exciting educational project, and with the integration of powerful AI like GPT-4, the possibilities are endless. …

Almost two weeks ago, I was notified about something very exciting to me. And now that it’s official, I suppose I can tell everyone. I have recently been designated as an Alexa Champion!!! So what does that mean? Rather than explain it myself, I’ll just quote a paragraph from the…

As an Alexa skill developer, you may need to share your Alexa Skill with others for testing or publishing purposes. …

This blog will give you an overview of the different AWS services one can use for extending an Alexa Skill’s functionality. This blog is intended for beginners who have a basic familiarity with the Alexa Skill and the AWS ecosystem. While the suggested way for beginners to get started quickly…

How to interact with ChatGPT from your Alexa with complete source code — Introduction Voice assistants have become increasingly popular, with Amazon’s Alexa being one of the most widely used voice assistants in the market. One of the many benefits of Alexa is the ability to build custom skills that can extend its capabilities beyond the out-of-the-box features. In this article, I will guide…

Link to the online documentation can be found here The online documentation gives a general guidance on how to build a custom Alexa skill. Also, having an Alexa-enabled device is a “nice-have” but not a “must-have” as the Alexa skill can be tested on the console itself. I was going…