Category: advanced
Make Money with Alexa In-Skill Purchasing 2020
Learn how to build Alexa Skills with In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) One of the greatest aspects of the Amazon Alexa platform is being able to earn money by offering purchases in our skills. With In-Skill Purchasing (ISP), we can create a variety of product types for our users to enjoy an enhanced experience. Lets face facts: … Continue reading “Make Money with Alexa In-Skill Purchasing 2020”
Useful SSML for Alexa Skills
When you’re looking to personalize your skills and create engaging experiences for the Alexa platform, you really need to use SSML in your skills. The standard text output gets old quick and your carefully crafted responses can be misinterpreted, resulting in output other than what you intended. There’s a whole world of possibilities outside the … Continue reading “Useful SSML for Alexa Skills”
Reviewing the ASK Toolkit extension for VS Code
For the past few years, Microsoft has been making serious moves in the world of open source software. The most significant project for developers is VS Code (Visual Studio Code), a lightweight code editor with a very active extensions marketplace. For us Alexa Skill developers, the ASK Toolkit extension turns VS Code into a fully-fledged … Continue reading “Reviewing the ASK Toolkit extension for VS Code”
Notable Alexa Skill GitHub Repos – December 2019
Good morning, fellow Alexa Skill Builders! This year has been a groundbreaking year for the Alexa platform. New APIs, region and language support, and devices were released this year, opening up Amazon voice control to a whole new landscape. Here at Alexa Skills Tutorials, we are always on the lookout for code samples and repositories … Continue reading “Notable Alexa Skill GitHub Repos – December 2019”
Video: Local Debugging for your Alexa Skill
The Alexa team recently announced that they will be publishing more tutorials for developing skills. As most of us advanced Skill Builders have learned, there is a dearth of tutorials on the Internet once you get past the initial beginner tutorials. One such topic that has cost me quite a lot of time finding information … Continue reading “Video: Local Debugging for your Alexa Skill”
Using ASK CLI dialog command
Hello fellow Alexa Skill Builders! In today’s tutorial, I will show you how to use the ASK CLI dialog command to run some automation against your skill code. We will be able to set up scripts to test our code with prepared user dialogs using Replay files. Let’s get started! Setup First off, make sure … Continue reading “Using ASK CLI dialog command”
A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Course
It was recently announced that A Cloud Guru (https://acloud.guru/) is now offering a course for the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty exam! Check it out here! The course offers over 6 full hours and 79 lessons that will surely help jumpstart your study plan for the exam. By the end of the course, … Continue reading “A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Course”
Retrieving user information in an Alexa Skill
Dabble Lab has created another great tutorial video for enhancing your Alexa Skills with personalized user information. If you have ever wondered how to get a user’s email address, here’s how you do it. In this video, Steve Tingiris shows the nitty gritty details of getting a user data. By requesting permissions for data in … Continue reading “Retrieving user information in an Alexa Skill”
Alexa Dev Chat podcast
Dave Isbitski, the Chief Evangelist of Alexa at Amazon, hosts a very informative Alexa podcast at alexadevchat.com (hosted on Soundcloud). On this podcast, Dave discusses the Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service (AVS), natural language understanding, voice recognition, and much more! Also featured are developer tips and interviews with Alexa developers employees, so it’s worth … Continue reading “Alexa Dev Chat podcast”
User Address in Alexa Skill Video Tutorial
Have you ever wondered how to obtain the registered address of the device your user has your skill enabled on? Dabble Lab has recently published a video that will answer questions on how to get started building and testing skills that need a user’s address. If you follow along with their tutorial and template, you … Continue reading “User Address in Alexa Skill Video Tutorial”