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The heavy-lifting required to build Alexa Skills & conversational interfaces.

The heavy-lifting required to build Alexa Skills & conversational interfaces.

NLU (natural language understanding) isn’t necessarily the main challenge in moving from web to voice development — it takes thankless…
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How Utterances & Slot samples affect Intent-matching in Alexa Skills

How Utterances & Slot samples affect Intent-matching in Alexa Skills

This is perhaps the biggest area of confusion and uncertainty for developers building Alexa Skills. This article assumes you understand the…
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Mornings are prime time for voice. Implications for news & content providers.

Mornings are prime time for voice. Implications for news & content providers.

Much to the chagrin of my wife, the first 3 things I say each morning are:
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Tips and gotchas using Alexa custom slots

Tips and gotchas using Alexa custom slots

I see a lot of similar questions regarding custom slots in the Alexa Developer Forums so am summarizing key points here to help new Alexa…
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Chas Sweeting
“Alexa, good morning” is the new Google Doodle. How to win at voice.

“Alexa, good morning” is the new Google Doodle. How to win at voice.

“Alexa, Good morning” is the first thing I say each morning — knowing that I’ll invariably learn something, perhaps be uplifted and usually…
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Voice activated services for busy people 101.

Voice activated services for busy people 101.

If your business hasn’t even considered voice-activated services as debuted with Amazon Echo and Google Home devices, this primer is for…
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Voice is a technology inflection point.

Voice is a technology inflection point.

As Alexa Skills development ramps up, I admit to only being this excited about technology twice in the last 25 years:
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12 reasons to be developing Alexa Skills right now.

I haven’t had this much fun as a developer in over 20 years. Here are some of the reasons I find working on voice applications — and the…
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