Podcast appearances and mentions of alexa skills kit

Based on a question from StackOverflow, Allen and Mark explore the question about how to handle a #VoiceFirst scenario where the user needs to provide a list of several items one at a time (a food order, for example). If we're expecting the user to fill in a slot multiple times, or trigger an intent multiple times, before saying they're ready to move on - how do we make sure this intent gets handled over and over? Mark offers ways to handle this using Jovo and the Alexa Skills Kit, while Allen explores doing this with Dialogflow ES and CX, and ponders if Alexa Conversations will help.

Implementing "repeat" is one of the Intents that the review teams from both Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant require. But they don't really give guidance about how to design or implement that Intent. Mark and Allen discuss the various approaches that they take with the Alexa Skills Kit, Assistant Library, Jovo, and multivocal.

Google Assistant Console: https://console.actions.google.com/ Main docs page: https://developers.google.com/assistant Codelabs: https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/codelabs Community forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleAssistantDev/ Stack Overflow: actions-on-google and actions-builder tags twitter: @ActionsOnGoogle Actions on Air video / podcast series Follow other GDEs - many have tutorials about various topics. Dialogflow ES Docs: https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/es/docs ES community Forum: https://groups.google.com/g/dialogflow-essentials-edition-users Stack Overflow: dialogflow-es and dialogflow-es-fulfillment Alexa Developer Docs: https://developer.amazon.com Alexa Skills Kit blog: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit Dabble Lab: https://dabblelab.com/ Voice First Tools: https://voicefirst.tools/ APL Simulator: https://tools.alexaskills.dev/ Jovo Main page: https://www.jovo.tech/ Docs Tutorials Marketplace Forum GitHub: https://github.com/jovotech Jovo Community: https://github.com/jovo-community

How can covered entities create and maintain effective Business Associate Agreements? Craig Petronella, CEO of Petronella Technology Group, shares about the importance of good BAAs, and discusses the expansion of Amazon's "Alexa Skills Kit" and how it affects healthcare organizations.

Hey everybody, thanks for watching this is a relatively simple tutorial video on how to set up an Amazon Alexa Developer Account. Here we go. The first thing you're going to want to do is visit developer.amazon.com. So i've typed in developer.amazon.com and you'll see this screen here that says Amazon Developer Services and Technologies. The next thing you're going to do is click on Amazon Alexa. Now once you get to the developer.amazon.com Alexa page you're going to click the sign in link, and even though you don't have an account yet, you're still going to want to click the sign in link. And then after you click the sign in link, you can go down under new to Amazon and click "create your Amazon account." Now you're in the account creation process for your Amazon Alexa developer account. So the next thing you're going to do is just simply type in your name and your email address and then create a password. After you've entered in your name and your email address and your password, you'll click the blue "create your Amazon account" link. Amazon will always send your email address a verification in the form of a one-time password. They call it an OTP. Go back over into your email account and get your OTP. So you enter in your OTP and click the blue verify button. Now I have created my Amazon Alexa Developer account and what I'm going to need to do is click the Amazon Alexa logo up in the top left hand corner and then click the blue "get started" button for the Alexa Skills Kit and then it's going to say looking for the developer console sign in here. Then, it'll take you to your registration screen where you're going to have to complete these last two sections of the account creation process. You're gonna have to enter in a valid phone number address company name and you don't have to put a customer support email address phone or customer support website in here. I would recommend that you put in a developer description or company description, as you can go up to four thousand characters so I would recommend that you go ahead and do that. Once you're done, click save and continue it is then going to ask you to read the terms and conditions. So you scroll through and it is up to you to read it or not read it but you are going to have to scroll all the way down and then click "accept and continue," and now they have created your developer profile successfully. You can click go to settings now you have an account. You can go ahead and edit the account settings if you want to but you are the administrator of your account and now to start building your Alexa Skill you're gonna hover over the Alexa option in the main navigation which is third from the left and then click Alexa Skills Kit. Now you are in your Alexa Developer Console. This is what it's going to look like and you can go ahead and click the blue "create skill" button to start to create your Alexa Skill. Thanks for watching this tutorial video on how to set up an Amazon Alexa developer account! You should be off and running. If you have any questions please email me at paul@datadriven.design. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

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We catch up with 4 Amazon Alexa Champions to discuss the then, now and future of the Alexa skills ecosystem and the voice first community.Presented by ReadspeakerReadspeaker is a pioneering voice technology company that provides lifelike Text to Speech (TTS) services.Whether you're needing a TTS voice for your IVR system, voice application, automobile, robot, public service announcement system, website or anywhere else, Readspeaker have you covered.They've been in the TTS game for over 20 years and have in-depth knowledge and experience in AI and Deep Neural Networks, which they put to work in creating custom TTS voices for the world's biggest brands.If you're in the market for any form of TTS technology, check out Readspeaker today.In this episodeThe Alexa Champions program is an honorary award given by Amazon in recognition of great service to the Alexa platform and ecosystem.All four of today's guests are Alexa Champions, and they take us for a walk down memory lane and discuss:what the community and the voice first ecosystem was like when they first startedwhat made them start building Alexa skillsthe signs that signalled things were going wellthe current state of the voice first communitywhat they wish for in futureSteve Arkonovich and Eric Olsen were two of the very first Alexa Champions. Nick Schwab followed in the next batch, then Tim Kahle.Steve was building skills before the Alexa Skills Kit even existed! Over time, he's built up a rack of skills published under his company, Philosophical Creations. His skill, Big Sky, is one of the most used skills on the platforms and is to this day a sterling example of a great voice first and multi modal experience.Some of Eric Olsen's first skills were Complibot and Insultibot, skills that generate random compliments and insults for users every day. Eric is the founder of 3PO Labs has always been a keen member of the voice community and is one of the most active members in the Alexa Slack channel, offering help, advice and guidance for budding skill developers.Nick Schwab is the founder of Invoked apps and runs some of the most used skills on the Alexa platform. His suite of sleep sounds bring in around 300,000 users per day, a side hustle that famously earned him enough money to buy a Tesla.Tim Kahle is the co-founder of 169 Labs, based out of Germany and the organiser of the All About Voice conference. Tim and co-founder, Dominik Meißner, won an Alexa hackathon in Germany in 2016, released a series of skills and founded one of the leading voice agencies in Germany off the back of it. The All About Voice conference in Munich is the leading voice first event in Europe.LinksSteve on Twitter and LinkedInEric on Twitter and LinkedInNick on Twitter and LinkedInTim on Twitter and LinkedIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Getting found on Alexa (let’s call it “SAO” – Search Alexa Optimization) – At Project Voice, I asked Amazon Alexa’s Jeff Blankenburg how businesses can get found on Alexa. While waking Alexa with a phrase like “Alexa, how do I make a Jack-o-lantern” I’ve noticed more frequently over the last 6 months that if Alexa doesn’t have an answer, it will suggest Skills that do. So if we build “How to build a Jack-o-lantern” into our Carmen Johnston Gardens Skill, for example, along with hundreds of other Home, Garden, Recipe and how-to tips – users may not actually need to say “Alexa, Launch Carmen Johnston Gardens” to find that content. Alexa should start to say “I have a skill that you could try…” after the user simply says “…. How to make a Jack-o-lantern.” I confirmed with Blankenburg that nobody really knows how this formula works, but he says the more content, and the better description and keywords in the Alexa Skills Kit console, the more likely your skill is to be recommended as a result for these “voice assistant searches.” Blankenburg confirmed that partnerships are not paid currently, so any business with a skill can show. GET. IN. NOW! Jeff Blankenburg, Alexa Evangelist, shares his perspective on voice at-large. He goes into why he's excited for small-business owners in particular, from realtors to family-owned restaurants, to get into using Voice. And he ends on how Alexa-as-a-Companion is building trust. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Before I get into defining Alexa Presentation Language (APL), I have to define "Multimodal Voice App." What the heck is a multimodal voice app? By now, we're all somewhat familiar with what we can ask Alexa to do. Some of us way more familiar than others. And by now, we should at least have some level of familiarity with what "Alexa Skills" are. They're simply applications built on top of Alexa, the same way mobile applications are built for the iOS App Store or Android Google Play Store. So yes, it's possible to build a voice-based application that does all of the things (and more) that/than a web-app or mobile app does. It's also possible to fully integrate these voice-based apps (for Amazon Alexa - they're called "Skills" and for Google Assistant they're called "Actions" into preexisting web-apps and mobile apps. For example, imagine signing up for a subscription service on a website, being able to then view it on your mobile app, but also being able to ask Alexa to bring up premium content on your Echo device or any Alexa enabled device. With me? Great. Okay, now consider the fact that Amazon has not only Alexa-abled cars, headphones, etc. but they're also selling tens of millions of devices with screens. The Echo Show and Echo Show 5 are super popular, and the Spot still exists, as well as Amazon Fire app that is also Alexa-enabled. So voice-based apps that are designed for more than one type of device (i.e. Echo and Echo Show and/or Echo Auto and Amazon Fire) are called Multimodal Voice-based apps. They're voice activated and voice navigated, but they also have visuals. Okay, now that we've cleared that up, let's talk about Alexa Presentation Language (APL). This is how the Alexa Skills Kit (for developers) allows you to design for multimodal Alexa Skills. This video shows you some cool features about designing and testing using the APL Authoring Tool and my Echo Show 5 Device. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

The first step towards creating your Alexa Skill or Alexa Flash Briefing for your brand, start-up or small business, is to create an Amazon Alexa Developer Account. It's one of the easiest possible steps in the entire experience of building Alexa Skills, but it still feels good to get started and know that you're in the right place. First, go to https://developer.amazon.com. It will redirect you to a log-in page. Here is where you click the "Create an Account" button. After filling out your username and password, you will be sent a one-time password (OTP) to your email account. After entering in your one-time password, you'll fill out your Developer Account's profile information and agree to the Terms and Conditions. Your account has been created. Now to start building Alexa Skills, visit the Third Tab from the left, called "Alexa" and click "Alexa Skills Kit." You will then be taken to your Amazon Alexa Developer Dashboard, where you can click "Create Skill" and get started building your Alexa Skills! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist, Amazon Alexa, on the power of Alexa for marketing, part 1 of 2.Dave and Emily talked about why voice is a departure from previous technology (leaving Tap, Type, & Swipe - entering Voice First) and how you can harness Alexa to learn more about your customers. Plus: how you can use voice as the ultimate frictionless up-sell. Full show notes and web player hereWe also answered a top question among marketers: how do you overcome discoverability challenges with early voice to get your Alexa skill found? Friendly reminder: please mute your Alexa device before listening.1-Click listen in your favorite podcast appSHOW NOTES:2:05: Dave has worked in web and mobile for decades: what is different about voice?3:40- “Voice cuts across all industries. From finance to CPG…” You’ll see people talking about voice in finance, then doctors and healthcare professionals about what does voice mean for patient care? And you’ll see others ask what does it mean for shopping and pay? Brand ask what it means for them and customer?3:32 “Every technology I’ve ever talked about has always had training, we had to teach customers how to do this first before they can tell us what they want.” - DaveDave Isbitksi, Chief Evangelist, Alexa - Amazon4:00 There is no learning curve with voice: it’s natural for everyone to speak5:54 Inclusivity:It’s not about how well you can code, it’s about how well you can converse (Dave mentioned this in his keynote at VOICE Summit 2019)7:10 The marketer’s bottleneck with IT - this is less a problem with voice (Emily)7:50 Ruder Finn / PR Week event where Dave made a point about organizational education about voice - how it’s not really new but is easier:8:30 “There must be a doc somewhere in your organization that can help you with voice” - a group is still responsible for teaching new tech (like with cloud) but getting people up to speed now is much easier9:40 Alexa can learn easily - these are just restful web services passing JSON across SSL request - which we are already doing on mobile. It calls the same API. The magic is that Alexa is taking normal human language and figuring out which function to call, vs you hitting a button or tapping a screen to trigger that call.10:25 Alexa stands on the shoulders of all the tech waves that came before11:00 Let's have a discussion about your customer who engages not in a silo but on phones, tablets, social, and other on-ramps11:10 Alexa Skills Kit enables you to teach Alexa how to have a conversation about things. “Set up parameters of a conversation our customers have with us.”11:45 Alexa Voice Service is why you see Alexa in cars, radio services, Windows desktop, and other mobile devices12:30 Upsell- with voice, this is the moment where your customer essentially already has their money out (movie theatre popcorn and Coke analogy). They’re already logged in. Brands can use their own POS like Domino’s does, or Amazon Pay - so it’s just very simple and natural in the moment to get an additional sale13:00 The real difference with voice is being in the moment. We process sounds differently than other senses - it is in real time14:00 Carl Jung reference - the subconscious collects 11 million but we can only process about 40 things in our conscious despite thousands of inputs coming into our brains at all times16:00 Four years ago, Dave said "Get in early now to figure out what people are asking or saying"16:42 Discoverability: how can marketers get their Alexa skills found?17:00 When you first launched your brand's mobile app what did you do, just submit it to the App Store or Google Play? No! Let customers know it's there and why it's faster or better.17:20 Banking app example - when it went mobile customers would choose that bank for its ease of use17:50 MyFitnessPal Alexa skill - track calories by voice (Dave found out about it through another marketing message on the mobile app)18:40 Remember that customers are multimodal - silo launches don’t work19:00 If you already know the top three things your customers do on your mobile app (via analytics), those are your three functionalities to start with in voice20:00 Reviews - flywheel of customer feedback on Alexa skills for usability studiesListen anywhere: Subscribe free to this podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Isbitski joined the Alexa team in early 2015, shortly after the Amazon Echo launched and before Alexa Skills Kit or the skill store. When he started, it was all about developer office hours, slack groups, and meetups. Today, it is more often about conference keynotes and boardrooms. Bret Kinsella interviewed Dave at the Voice 19 Conference to get a sense about how things have changed over the past five years and what that means going forward for voice assistant adoption. Isbitski is currently chief evangelist for Alexa and before 2015 he held a similar role for the Amazon App Store. Prior to that, he spent 6 years as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and earlier in his career he was a technology manager at J&J and a Principal at BT. 

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For almost three years I've been making Data Driven Daily Tips, useful pieces of information for Small Business Owners and Small Marketing Teams to learn Web Design and Development, Digital Marketing, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Blogging, Content Creation, Instagram Growth Strategies and more. There are almost 300 "DDD Tips" now, and they've taken many forms. Originally shot on Instagram Stories and saved down and uploaded to YouTube, and reposted in blog form on the website with written transcriptions, the "tip" has now evolved into a simulcast YouTube Video and Podcast with audio ripped down and published via Anchor.fm. The YouTube video now is post edited into IGTV format requirements to ensure omnipresence on all socials, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Medium.com This latest version of the "tip" is a first. It's our first with a guest. And this guest is an important one, so we took about 45 minutes together via Zoom Conference. Myself from my office in Valencia, Spain, and Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist for Alexa at Amazon and Alexa Marketing Employee #1, I assume from his office in Seattle. Here are the main highlights of our conversation: On helping brands figure out "what does this all mean?" - "Alexa is not a smart speaker revolution, it's about connecting with your customers." Talking about what it's like to help build a community of Alexa Developers via the Alexa Developers Console and the Alexa Skills Kit. Also, the Alexa Voice Service. - Alexa Voice Service is where you put Alexa into things. This can be done with Windows machines, Sonos speakers, Cars, Headphones, Homes, etc. So Alexa Voice Service basically extends the amount of Alexa-enabled devices that exist. Right now, I think of Echos and Echo Dots as Alexa-enabled devices. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Kasia Ryniak & Rafal Cymerys are the co-founders of Upside, a voice app development agency based in Krakow, Poland, that offer voice interaction design, voice strategy and voice app development. In this episode, you will learn how experienced voice app developers create innovative prototypes, improve voice app engagement, and sell products and services via voice. First, we explore the creation of prototype of an Alexa skill for StarCraft II, which lets players use voice commands to trigger complex actions. We cover the importance of imbuing your voice assistant with a persona, how voice and visuals fit together to create multi-modal experiences, and a quick walkthrough of building the Alexa skill using the Alexa Skills Kit. Then Kasia and Rafal introduce us to voicecommerce.js, Upside's new open-source voice framework for integrating an eCommerce storefront with voice-enabled assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant. We cover the benefits of voice commerce to the consumers, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), and a case study for the fashion industry. It was a really fun conversation with Kasia and Rafal, and our conversation is packed full of interesting ideas and practical advice. You'll definitely want to listen to it all the way through, and keep a notebook handy! This is a time-limited preview. To hear the full episode, and access the full catalogue of episodes and bonus content, become a Voice Tech Pro https://voicetechpodcast.com/proLinks from the show: Full show notes: https://voicetechpodcast.com Upside homepage: https://upsidelab.ioUpside on Twitter: @UpsideLab Upside Voice Tech News: @CreateForVoice Upside on Github: https://github.com/upsidelab/voicecommerce Starcraft skill design: http://bit.ly/2sdxkYWStarcraft skill dev: http://bit.ly/2sbEVqLVoicecommerce.js: http://bit.ly/2sfbNilVue Storefront: https://www.vuestorefront.io PWAs: http://bit.ly/2seMey9Subscribe to get future episodes: Apple iTunes: https://apple.co/2LqW4olGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-google Google Android: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-android Stitcher: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-stitcher Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IZr5hm Alexa: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-alexa Website: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast Join the discussion: Newsletter: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-newsletter Reddit: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-reddit Facebook group: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-facebook-groupFacebook page: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-facebook-pageFollow on Twitter:

In this episode, Josey Sandoval, covers the basics of voice as a user interface, including practical examples using the Alexa Skills Kit. He covers the role played by speech recognition and natural language understanding in voice applications, along with some voice UX best practices. Finally, Josey explains some of the major opportunities and challenges for voice, and where up-and-coming Product Managers can help the industry innovate.

Voice is a natural interface to interact not just with the world around us, but also with physical assets and things, such as connected home devices, including lights, thermostats, or TVs. In this session, we discuss how you can connect and control devices in your home using the AWS IoT platform and Alexa Skills Kit. We also hear from customer, VIZIO, on how they are using AWS IoT and Alexa to bring a voice-controlled television experience to their hundreds of thousands of customers.

.fusion-fullwidth-4 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; } Understanding Alexa for Business with Alexa Champion Mark Carpenter Share This Story, Choose Your Platform!(StudioCarlton)  There are currently an estimated 20-million homes with Amazon Echo Devices.  Learn how you can harness the future of VOICE with a custom Alexa Skill to market and promote your business, your books, even your podcasts to engage your audience.   Studio Carlton launches its first Alexa Skills for Business Podcast with featured guest; Amazon Alexa Champion, Mark Carpenter.  Host Victoria lynn Weston and Mark discuss the benefits of having a custom Alexa Skill and understanding how Alexa works.  (33:23) Learn how you can harness the magic of your own Alexa Skills to promote your business, brands, products and services.  Amazon Alexa Champion, Mark Carpenter is guest on Studio Carlton's podcast, ALEXA Skills for Business  Tweet ABOUT MARK CARPENTER Mark Carpenter has over twenty years experience as a software developer and is an Amazon Alexa Champion expert.  He is an early adopter of and advocate for Amazon Echo and developing skills using the Alexa Skills Kit. He has published the ASK Dev Weekly newsletter since September 2015. He also was the chief architect of the Alexa Project curriculum currently offered to Bloc bootcamp students.  In this role he helps hundreds of students each year learn the skills and methods of effective software engineering. He teaches iOS, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript, as well as more specific frameworks and stacks such as the Alexa Skills Kit.  Visit: GetSixVoices. About Victoria lynn Weston, Host of AYRIAL TalkTime Victoria lynn Weston has worked as a professional intuitive consultant for over 15 years. She has created smartphone apps and recently developed voice-activated, data-driven content for Amazon Echo devices - Alexa Skills including America's Victoria,  AYRIAL Positive Living, AYRIAL Feng Shui.  In addition, she is a producer/director of PBS documentaries including America's Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull.  Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Victoria has been a featured guest on dozens of radio, television shows and print media including; the Atlanta PARADE magazine, The Atlanta Business Journal, ABC Nightline, ABC Talk Radio; CNBC; BUSINESS WEEK Online; INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, WIRED NEWS and THE NEW YORK TIMES. Victoria is also the President and Founder of StudioCarlton. How to Listen and Get New ALEXA for Business Episodes ALEXA Skills for Business Podcast is available on several popular audio apps. Are you using an iPhone or iPad?  Click here to open ALEXA Skills for Business Podcastseries from the iTunes Podcast app.  Be sure to select “subscribe” to get the latest episodes on your device automatically. For Android users, click here to open theALEXA Skills for Business Podcast series in Google Play Music app. Don't forget to select “subscribe” to grab all the latest episodes on your device automatically. You can also listen to ALEXA Skills for Business Podcast on Stitcher and iHeart Radio. *We appreciate you listening and subscribing - if you would, we would appreciate receiving a 5 star review! If you prefer to listen directly from StudioCarlton.com visit ALEXA Skills for Busines podcast page to conveniently listen to episodes from your web browser. Check out these latest Alexa Skills! AYRIAL Positive Living Daily Tips! AYRIAL, the leading online body, mind and spirit proudly launched it's second Amazon Alexa Skill:  AYRIAL Positive Living Daily Tips! AYRIAL Positive Living presents inspiring, motivational and unique daily tips from AYRIAL’s featured members, who are among the world's leading lifestyle consultants including; certified feng shui experts, intuitive counselors, health & wellness practitioners, dream experts and more! If you want to learn more about AYRIAL's daily featured member...

Amazon has added a lot of features to Alexa Skills Kit over the past year. Voicebot asked two of the most experienced Alexa developers to weigh in on some of the biggest feature additions. Octavio Menocal has developed over 70 Alexa skills both personally and with RAIN Agency. Eric Olson is an Alexa Champion who built some of the first popular Alexa skills and has worked closely with the Alexa developer evangelist team. We discuss the intent history API, notifications, location, lists, video play directives, one shot utterances, multi-modal development, duplicate invocation names and more. 

Möglicherweise hunderttausende deutsche Nutzer von Facebook-Datenskandal betroffen Facebook hat Zahlen betroffener Nutzer im Facebook-Datenskandal um Cambridge Analytica genannt. Rund 87 Millionen Nutzer könnten betroffen sein, in Deutschland bis zu 310.000. Der Datenskandal könnte damit noch deutlich größer sein als bisher angenommen. Der Entwickler einer Umfrage-App hatte Informationen von Facebook-Nutzern an die Analysefirma Cambridge Analytica weitergereicht. An der Umfrage selbst hätten sich laut Facebook lediglich 65 Nutzer aus Deutschland beteiligt. Über die Erfassung der Informationen von Freunden könnten allerdings bis zu 309.815 Facebook-Mitglieder aus Deutschland betroffen sein. Mehr Elektroautos nicht so gut für die Daimler-Bilanz Der Wandel in der Autoindustrie kostet Zeit und vor allem sehr viel Geld. "Mehr Elektroautos sind gut für die CO2-Bilanz. Aber nicht so gut für unsere Konzern-Bilanz – jedenfalls vorübergehend", sagte Daimler-Chef Dieter Zetsche. Daimler will das erste vollelektrische Auto der Marke EQ von 2019 an produzieren, neun weitere Modelle sollen folgen. Elektroautos hätten zumindest am Anfang eine deutlich kleinere Gewinnspanne als die Verbrenner-Modelle. BlackBerry verklagt Snapchat-Betreiberfirma BlackBerry versteht keinen Spaß, wenn es um Verletzungen eigener Patente geht. Nach Qualcomm und Facebook ist nun Snap, die Betreiberfirma von Snapchat betroffen. Die Foto-App habe sechs Patente verletzt, erklärt BlackBerry in der Klage. Dazu gehörten ein Verfahren zur Erhebung von Ortungsinformationen sowie die Anzeige von Uhrzeiten in Online-Chats. Unter den Patenten ist auch die Idee, ein App-Symbol mit einem Zähler für die Anzahl ungelesener Nachrichten zu versehen Amazon öffnet Echo für Games Alexa Gadgets sollen Amazons Sprachassistentin künftig auch zur Spielkameradin machen. Ergänzend zum Alexa Skills Kit steht Entwicklern dafür ab sofort die Gadgets Skill API in der ersten Betaversion zur Verfügung. Über die neue Programmierschnittstelle lassen sich die bunten Echo Buttons um Spielefunktionen erweitern, die mit sämtlichen Echo-Geräten genutzt werden können. Diese und alle weiteren aktuellen Nachrichten finden sie auf heise.de

Good Morning...I’m Stephen Woessner, CEO of Predictive ROI and host of Onward Nation – and I’d like to welcome you to Episode 705...this week’s solocast. In case you’re new to Onward Nation...a solocast is where you and I take a deep dive into a topic...just you and me...without a guest. And this one-on-one opportunity provides the necessary time to really explore a topic with some depth. And during a solocast, I typically share my point-of-view – when relevant – on trends my team and I are watching play out with business owners every day in the marketplace. Or, I may share the most important lessons I am learning during conversations with other owners either during our Onward Nation episodes – sometimes during the recording or behind-the-green-curtain discussion I get to have – or – when I am out on the road teaching at conferences, or the new tools and tech I am learning about during mastermind sessions, or weekly check-ins with my accountability partners. So these solocasts are the place where I can share all of these points with you – and hopefully – I am able to share them in a practical and tactical way that the information and ideas serve you, your team, and overall, are helpful as you work toward building and scaling your business. So for today...I am going to explain why I believe so strongly that “voice” represents that next opportunity – that next patch of fertile ground – for significant business development. What’s Voice? Let’s start off with some context around the word “voice” and what it covers. And then we will dive deeper into what, in my opinion, likely represent three of the most significant business development opportunities for you as it relates to voice – and how you and your team can win if you were to add a voice-centric strategy to your overall biz dev plan. Okay, so what do I mean when I say “voice” and why does it matter? The term “voice” today is being used to essentially encapsulate all voice-activated or operated devices, apps, and Internet of Things accessories that you may have in your home or office. So for example, if part of your daily routine while you’re coffee is brewing is to say, “Hey Alexa, give me my flash briefing,” you are using voice to get information. Or, maybe part of your daily routine is to say, “Hey Google...dim the kitchen lights to 50 percent,” you are using a voice command to get a desired result. Or, let’s say you are working on a research report and you grab your iPhone X and say, “Hey Siri...what is the 52-week high for Disney stock,” you are using voice to pull data from a search engine.   Or, maybe you want to listen to your favorite podcast and you say, “Hey Alexa, play the Onward Nation Podcast,” and the most recent episode begins playing. And over the last couple of years, we have seen a real proliferation of voice-controlled devices or VCD for short...to the point that we are seeing a category emerge with a real acronym...VCD...voice controlled devices. And we as consumers are responding and voting with our wallets. To help illustrate this...I want to share some of the trends and data points we are watching really closely here at Predictive ROI. According to Techcrunch...the Echo Dot was the best-selling product on all of Amazon during the 2017 holiday season. Amazon did not release the actual number sold, but they did confirm for Techcrunch that tens of millions were sold. According to comScore...the number of U.S. households with smart speakers grew by 49 percent from June to November 2017. And smart speakers currently consist of Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and others. Amazon Echo continues to be the market share leader but Google Home is gaining ground quickly. Here’s a market share estimate that shows Amazon with 88 percent market share in 2016. Their share dropped to 52 percent in 2017. Source: https://alpine.ai/voice-search-trends/ It is also important to realize that the overall market is exploding and that Amazon is still selling millions of Echos – and – from an software perspective...Amazon provides buyers with a library of over 30,000 Alexa Skills that can be verbally installed so that Alexa can perform certain tasks for you, as compared to Google Home’s library of less than 1,000. But, Google’s major advantage is its dominance in search. Right now, when you ask Alexa to search for something online, she is only able to search the topic using Wikipedia, which is not as comprehensive as using Google, which comes native as part of Google Home. This provides Google with a huge advantage to penetrate more and more areas of our home. A results of a recent Google survey estimated that 72 percent of people who own a voice-activated speaker say that their devices are often used as part of their daily routine. But the market share competition for voice controlled devices is not being waged just by Amazon, Google, and Apple. Samsung is expected to get into the smart speaker space – and according to Forbes, Spotify has been rumored to be preparing the release of their smart speaker. And, Spotify is about to conduct a $1 billion initial public offering for their stock, so the stakes are high that they execute their products strategy carefully so they can diversify revenue beyond being a music subscription service – otherwise – the company would not be worthy of such a lofty valuation. So let’s shift our attention away from devices and think about search and how we as consumers are being to use search engines to find what we need. According to Branded3 and data collected from IBM, 25 percent of searches on Windows 10 taskbar are voice. According to a report in Search Engine People, 20 percent of mobile searches on Google are made via voice command. And according to comScore, 55 percent of teens and 41 percent of adults already execute voice searches multiple times per day, and the forecast is that by 2020, 50 percent of all searches will be via voice. Onward Nation, I have even read reports predicting that by 2022, our computers will no longer come with keyboards because your laptop will essentially become a voice controlled device. It blows my mind to think about that – but – the data does seem to point in that direction. And what about podcasting as part of growth – is it still a growing category? And I get the fact that for me to have a bullish voice in this area makes me seem biased...so let me share some data from Edison Research. They are the leaders in collecting and sharing the growth related data in their annual report, which you can download here. Podcasting...even though it may seem like it is exploding right now...by the numbers...is growing at a slow and steady clip. There does not seem to be a podcasting bubble – instead – the data seems to indicate that there is some significant upside potential and we are just beginning to scratch the surface as more and more listening channels come online making the content that much more accessible. 24 percent of Americans have listened to a podcast in the last month – up from 21 percent 12 months ago. And 40 percent of Americans have ever listened to a podcast...up from 36 percent 12 months ago. The awareness of the term podcasting increased to 60% up from 55 percent 12 months ago. And 15% of Americans said that they listen to podcasts on weekly basis up from 13 percent 12 months ago. See what I mean? Slow and steady growth – even though – sometimes it can feel like every business owner on the planet has podcast and everyone is listening...the reality is not that. In fact, there are only a few podcasts – there is a lot of room in the market especially for really good content – and there is still a lot of blue ocean out there with growth potential. And we are seeing this steady growth as smart phones become more and more sophisticated, podcasters are developing their own apps so their audiences can find their content with just one tap or click, and their continues to be a proliferation of channels where the content can be accessed. For example, when we launched Onward Nation on June 15, 2015...705 episodes ago – yay! – you would have been able to listen to our episodes on iTunes, Stitcher, and our website. That was it. Now...you can listen to our episodes on iTunes and Stitcher as well as Amazon Echo by asking Alexa, you can find us on Spotify, on CastBox, on iHeart Radio, and on Google Play. And I am sure we will see more and more channels come online as the competition for subscribers and downloads continue. Lastly...we are also seeing large brands beginning to make significant investments in voice as part of their overall marketing strategy. According to AdAge, and what might be an industry first, JPMorgan Chase recently appointed VaynerMedia as its agency of record for “voice marketing” as the financial services giant looks to amplify its strategy around the nascent practice. Onward Nation, there are a number of reasons why I think this news is significant – but most of all – brands have been resisting for years and years the naming of an agency of record for any part of their business. Because awarding an agency with that title anoints them with a high level authority – certainly at the strategy level – above all other agencies. It is typically reserved for something very significant – and it is rarely used in today’s advertising world. Instead, brands are breaking up with agencies, slicing and dicing responsibilities across many agencies where they think they can get the best pricing, etc. So for JPMorgan Chase to make the bold move toward voice and to do it such a way that named Gary and his team as the agency of record – is huge. Huge kudos to Gary – major win. We are definitely witnessing the fulfillment of some of the predictions he made during Episode 42 of Onward Nation. Okay, let’s bring this full circle...all of this combined is why I firmly believe that the momentum we are experiencing around podcasting – and more macro – what we are experiencing around voice – is just the tip of the iceberg and all of this exciting momentum represents a myriad of opportunities for you and your team to plant your business development flag. So let’s take a look at four business development strategies that in my opinion, you and your team should seriously consider. These are not pie-in-the-sky ideas that you might be able to implement if we go keyboard-less computers in 5-years. Strategy #1: Launch a podcast Hosting your own podcast is an exceptional opportunity for you share your point-of-view with your customers and prospects, to be helpful to them as they work hard to grow their businesses, and to grow your audience and influence. Once you launch your show...be sure to get your content into all of the major distribution channels like Spotify, Alexa, CastBox, iTunes, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Soundcloud and the myriad of other channels were podcasts live today. If you want a complete list of what we consider to be the big ones...go to PredictiveROI.com and click on “Podcast” and you will see a long list down the right side of the site with links to each channel. A podcast will also provide you with numerous monetization opportunities from developing business relationships with your guests, to promoting products and services to your audience, selling sponsorships to third party brands who want to pay you to access your audience and many more. If you’re consider launching a podcast – or some other form of cornerstone content – I highly recommend going back to Episodes 676 and 659 so you and your team can refer to all of the step-by-step tactical plans I included in each episode for creating and monetizing your cornerstone content. Strategy #2: Launch an Alexa Skill or Flash Briefing Okay, once your podcast is launched, and your episodes are available on Amazon Echo via Alexa voice commands, then I recommend you give some serious thought to building your own Alexa Skill or Flash Briefing. At the time of this recording, we are about 2 weeks away from launching a beta version of our Predictive ROI flash briefing where we will provide helpful insights from our guests that were not aired during their actual episode – a collection of behind-the-green-curtain conversations – and the daily Flash Briefing would be the perfect channel for sharing that super exclusive content. In addition, we may also include research points, the answers to FAQs, and other ways we can be helpful to business owners who may be looking for resources on how to gain clarity around their point of view and use cornerstone content to share their thoughts and wisdom with a larger audience. A key point for you to consider as you map out your Alexa strategy is that Alexa can do more than just straight responses to specific questions. Alexa can also be configured to access and pull data from sources like Google Analytics – all of which is possible by making the correct API calls. Incredible! If you log into your Amazon account, you will be able to access the Alexa Skills Kit so you and your team can begin reviewing all of the technical specifications involved in the process. One of the most interesting features for Alexa Skills is how you can require that someone who enables the skill – also “links” their account. Which means they have to accept granting linkage to their Facebook account which then you as the marketer have access to their email address and Facebook messenger. So...if you build a rockin’ awesome Alexa Skill, it can not only help you be helpful to your audience – but – the Skill can also build your email list. SUPER AWESOME!! Strategy #3: Convert your blog into audio content Say you are struggling to think of how you might host a podcast – or – the thought of you interviewing your dream prospects as guest makes you uncomfortable – but – you also recognize the power of voice and you happen to have a rockin’ awesome blog that you have spent the last several years building out. Wonderful. Enter...Voxsnap. Voxsnap is a recently launched service where you can provide them access to your written content – and they will convert it into audio files for you. Voxsnap has a stable of professional voice actors who will read and record your blog content and then give you back a professional sounding mp3 file of your content that you can then share via iTunes, etc...all of the podcasting channels we discussed earlier. So if writing is your preferred way to create cornerstone content, and you are uncomfortable with the thought of recording audio, continue writing with excellent and then leverage the power of voice through Voxsnap. Strategy #4: Optimize your content for voice search And lastly, you and your team need to get up to speed with the changes voice is having on search engine optimization. I mentioned earlier how comScore predicts that nearly 50 percent of all searches in just a few short years will be voice activated – and that means we need to create different content – and serve it up to Google differently if we want to continue driving organic traffic to our websites. And with voice search...there seems to be one vital priority at the moment and that is to create and optimize content so that it is worthy of becoming the “Featured Snippet” in the search results. The featured snippet is the content that is ranked so high in the search results that Google tends to put it inside a box and it is typically the answer to a question you may have asked when searching. So why is the featured snippet so important to voice? Because Google tends to highlight featured snippets in the voice search results and read them to you audibly. So, if you score a featured snippet ranking for your content – you will not only be served up to searches who are using Google the traditional way – but you will also be served up first to voice searches and your content will be shared with them audibly. Come on...how cool is that, Onward Nation? So...how do you score a featured snippet ranking? Well, I will likely dedicated a future solocast just to this topic because as you might imagine – it is a deep one all by itself. But for now...I will share several quick guidelines. First, you need to begin creating content for your website that is focused on answering “what,” “how,” or “why” questions from searchers. “What” your product or service does, “how” your team solves problems, and “why” you and your team believe so strongly in supporting the industry through your annual research report on trends, etc. So you need to think creatively about matching your content with the intent of voice search so that they sync up. Second, Google has shared data about how searchers who are using voice are also using long keyword strings – or what is often referred to as long-tail keywords. Gone are the days of someone going to Google and searching for a single keyword but instead of searching for a solution to a problem. For example...the deep dive solocast that I record that will focus on voice search might be entitled: “Okay Google, how do I optimize my website for voice search?” Because I will want anyone who is struggling with that topic to find my solocast. So you need to think of your keywords from a long-tail perspective but also from a question and answer or solution perspective. And third, I would highly recommend you and your team doing some research and testing using Schema.org – often referred to as Structured Data. With Structured Data, you will have more opportunities to tell Google, Bing, etc. what your content page contains – to label it – identify it and to make it easier for them to index and rank. Recent studies have shown that of all the content pages in the same that were ranked by Google with a featured snippet, over 40 percent of the pages were using Structured Data as part of their optimization recipe. Again, I will record a separate solocast on voice search engine optimization to share all of our steps in full transparency – but for now – if you and your team begin reviewing your content from the perspective of those three areas, you will likely be ahead of 95 percent of your competition. Okay, there is one final reason why I am urging you to immediately consider voice as part of your business development strategy. Because if you truly want to be a thought leader – and you want to leverage your thought leadership so that it serves you in attracting new clients as I have shared with you in past solocasts, then you cannot be a one trick pony. Here’s a quick video snippet about why I think that is the case. Your content cannot just be available on your blog...or just your YouTube channel...or just your podcast...or your latest book. Your content needs to be available across multiple channels and you reaching your audience and being helpful in multiple ways...and voice gives you that exceptional opportunity. With voice...you have the opportunity to no longer be a one-trick pony. With voice, you can create new content and then transform it into written content. Now, with the launch of Voxsnap, you have the opportunity to take your written content and transform it into voice. There is so much opportunity today to take one piece of cornerstone content and to transform it into many different spokes – and unfortunately – if you are not doing that – you are missing out on significant business development opportunities. So with that said...I want to say thank you, Onward Nation – thank you for taking time to be here – thank you for sharing your feedback, opinions, and insights with us for over 700 episodes. Please know – I appreciate your time and attention so very much – thank you for helping us get better each and every day. And I am thrilled that we crossed another milestone with 700 episodes – and that feels wonderful – but I think we are just scratching the surface in how we look to serve you the best going forward this year. I wish you a wonderful rest of your week and look forward to having you back tomorrow for another great interview with one of today’s top business owners. Until then...onward with gusto!  

Last year, Capital One joined Alexa on stage to talk about their experience building their successful Alexa skill. Since that time, many lessons have been learned through customer feedback and new enhancements to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) such as the skills beta testing tool and the Alexa skill builder. How can you evolve your Alexa skill with more meaningful data sets outside of the existing intents? As the Alexa Skills Kit has grown its built-in library, what does it mean for your skill to support both ordinal (list) and numerical values? How can you handle new specifications without requiring wholesale code changes? Capital One has tackled all of these issues as well as embracing additional programming languages like TypeScript to ensure that response structures are validated against all schemas. With the arrival of multimodal devices such as the Echo Show, the opportunity for seamless customer interaction models across voice and visual has also arrived (big fonts, touch, video). Your customers can now transition back and forth between using their voice and their hands while engaging with your skill. Come learn direct from Capital One on the best way of providing extra contextual information using the new Alexa Skills Kit display directives but in more convenient ways to get things done.

Hicham Tahiri is the founder and CEO of Smartly.ai. While Hicham started as an embedded systems engineer, he began his job as a voice user interface designer way back in 2006 and has spent most of his career focused on voice technology. He later founded what became Smartly in 2011 to help companies building robots and cars integrate speech recognition and interaction into their solutions. When Amazon Echo was launched along with the Alexa Skills Kit in 2015, Smartly began creating Alexa skills and built one of the first third-party voice app design solutions. Smartly.ai is headquartered in Paris and its software is used by over a thousand developers worldwide. The solution is designed to enable voice app development without the need for technical expertise and as a toolset for skilled developers to build more efficiently.

Simon takes a walk through LOTS of the updates that have been happening for AWS Customers. Shownotes New – Per-Second Billing for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/ Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-now-allows-customers-to-expand-their-existing-vpcs/ New – Descriptions for Security Group Rules - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-descriptions-for-security-group-rules/ New – Stop & Resume Workloads on EC2 Spot Instances - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-stop-resume-workloads-on-ec2-spot-instances/ Amazon VPC NAT Gateways now support Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring and Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-vpc-nat-gateways-now-support-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring-and-resource-tagging/ AWS VPN Update – Custom PSK, Inside Tunnel IP, and SDK update | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/aws-vpn-update-custom-psk-inside-tunnel-ip-and-sdk-update/ Elasticsearch 5.5 now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/elasticsearch-5_5-now-available-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow Announces Support For Geoproximity Routing With Traffic Biasing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-route-53-traffic-flow-announces-support-for-geoproximity-routing-with-traffic-biasing/ New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/ Now Available – EC2 Instances with 4 TB of Memory - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ec2-instances-with-4-tb-of-memory/ Use OpenCL Development Environment with Amazon EC2 F1 FPGA Instances to accelerate your C/C++ applications, also F1 instances are now available in US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/use-opencl-development-environment-with-amazon-ec2-f1-fpga-instances-to-accelerate-your-c-c-plus-plus-applications-also-f1-instances-are-now-available-in-us-west-oregon-and-eu-ireland-regions/ Announcing: React Native Starter Project with One-Click AWS Deployment and Serverless Infrastructure - AWS Mobile Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/announcing-react-native-starter-project-with-one-click-aws-deployment-and-serverless-infrastructure/ Announcing enhancements to the Amazon Lex test console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/announcing-enhancements-to-the-amazon-lex-test-console/ Announcing support for synonyms and slot value validation on Amazon Lex | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/announcing-support-for-synonyms-and-slot-value-validation-on-amazon-lex/ Now Specify Request Level Attributes with Amazon Lex | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/now-specify-request-level-attributes-with-amazon-lex/ New Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Types for Phone numbers, Speed, and Weight, Available in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/new-amazon-lex-built-in-slot-types-for-phone-numbers-speed-and-weight-available-in-preview/ Export your Amazon Lex chatbot to the Alexa Skills Kit | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/export-your-amazon-lex-chatbot-to-the-alexa-skills-kit/ Apple Core ML and Keras Support Now Available for Apache MXNet - AWS AI Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/apple-core-ml-and-keras-support-now-available-for-apache-mxnet/ AWS CodePipeline now provides notifications on pipeline, stage, and action status changes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-codepipeline-now-provides-notifications-on-pipeline-stage-and-action-status-changes/ Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-pinpoint-introduces-two-way-text-messaging/ Amazon Cognito Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools and Enrich Pinpoint Campaigns | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-cognito-integrates-with-amazon-pinpoint-to-add-analytics-for-user-pools-and-enrich-pinpoint-campaigns/ Amazon Redshift now supports late-binding views referencing Amazon Redshift and Redshift Spectrum external tables | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-redshift-now-supports-late-binding-views-referencing-amazon-redshift-and-redshift-spectrum-external-tables/ Custom Artifacts on AWS Device Farm - AWS Mobile Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/custom-artifacts-on-aws-device-farm/ Amazon Aurora Can Migrate Encrypted Databases from Amazon RDS for MySQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-aurora-can-migrate-encrypted-databases-from-amazon-rds-for-mysql/ Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds Raspbian OS and Raspberry Pi Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-ec2-systems-manager-adds-raspbian-os-and-raspberry-pi-support/ AWS Greengrass is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-greengrass-is-available-in-asia-pacific-tokyo-region/ AWS CloudTrail Enables Option to Add All Amazon S3 Buckets to Data Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-cloudtrail-enables-option-to-add-all-amazon-s3-buckets-to-data-events/ Amazon Kinesis Analytics improves application performance for high volume data streams | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-kinesis-analytics-improves-application-performance-for-high-volume-data-streams/ New Kinesis Analytics stream processing functions for time series analytics, real time sessionization, and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/new-kinesis-analytics-stream-processing-functions-for-time-series-analytics-real-time-sessionization-and-more/ AWS CloudFormation provides Stack Termination Protection | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-cloudformation-provides-stack-termination-protection/

In this episode Dave chats with with Jen Rapp. Jen served as the Alexa Skills Kit product manager for developing the new interfaces Alexa skill developers use with Echo Show. She and her team worked to create everything from the new template layouts to the hint directive to the built-in navigational intents. Links: Display Interface Reference: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/display-interface-reference How to Build Alexa Skills for Echo Show: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/12826e9e-e06a-4ab4-a583-8e074709a9f3/how-to-build-alexa-skills-for-echo-show1 VideoApp Interface Reference: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/videoapp-interface-reference

In Episode #329, Eric and Neil discuss what Alexa Skills are and how to leverage this. Tune in to find out how Alexa makes your life convenient and how Alexa Skills can help your customers access your product or podcast with ease. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today's topic: What Are Alexa Skills (and How to Leverage This)? 00:46 – You can teach Alexa new skills and reach different types of customers 01:01 – You can ask Alexa to play specific podcasts for you 01:29 – “It makes your life really convenient” 01:35 – Alexa automates your whole life 02:28 – If you have an Echo, you can listen to Marketing School by adding the skill 02:46 – From Alexa skill, Marketing school has had 136 new customers, 309 new plays and 6 plays per hour 03:24 – Don't expect amazing results from the Alexa yet, but it should work out well 03:40 – If you're in the consumer space, you should be leveraging Alexa but it's not as important for B2B 03:55 – When someone listens to something over and over, it will be on the top of their head 04:22 – Listening to podcasts is powerful 04:57 – Just search for Alexa Skills Kit 05:05 – That's it for today's episode! 3 Key Points: Alexa automates your whole life. Consumers can easily consume your product or podcasts through Alexa Skill. Alexa Skills can track the new customers' behavior right on the platform. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

In Episode #329, Eric and Neil discuss what Alexa Skills are and how to leverage this. Tune in to find out how Alexa makes your life convenient and how Alexa Skills can help your customers access your product or podcast with ease. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Are Alexa Skills (and How to Leverage This)? 00:46 – You can teach Alexa new skills and reach different types of customers 01:01 – You can ask Alexa to play specific podcasts for you 01:29 – “It makes your life really convenient” 01:35 – Alexa automates your whole life 02:28 – If you have an Echo, you can listen to Marketing School by adding the skill 02:46 – From Alexa skill, Marketing school has had 136 new customers, 309 new plays and 6 plays per hour 03:24 – Don’t expect amazing results from the Alexa yet, but it should work out well 03:40 – If you’re in the consumer space, you should be leveraging Alexa but it’s not as important for B2B 03:55 – When someone listens to something over and over, it will be on the top of their head 04:22 – Listening to podcasts is powerful 04:57 – Just search for Alexa Skills Kit 05:05 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Alexa automates your whole life. Consumers can easily consume your product or podcasts through Alexa Skill. Alexa Skills can track the new customers’ behavior right on the platform. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

Alexa and Salesforce part deux… In this episode we come back to Alexa and talk about different experiences with Alexa and the Alexa Skills Kit. Featuring Teddy Wachira, David Todd, and Joseph Guerra (GIS Joe)! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/system-dot-debug/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/system-dot-debug/support

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Neural networks have a long and rich history in automatic speech recognition. In this talk, we present a brief primer on the origin of deep learning in spoken language, and then explore today’s world of Alexa. Alexa is the AWS service that understands spoken language and powers Amazon Echo. Alexa relies heavily on machine learning and deep neural networks for speech recognition, text-to-speech, language understanding, and more. We also discuss the Alexa Skills Kit, which lets any developer teach Alexa new skills.

Experience how live virtual 3D worlds rendered with Amazon Lumberyard, a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine, interconnect with IoT devices in the real world. This session will illustrate how AWS IoT can be used to remotely control animate objects with Bluetooth, such as a Sphero robot. By using AWS Lambda and AWS IoT, we will create a bi-directional communication between moving robots that detect collisions and a virtual world rendered in Amazon's game engine. By using AWS IoT with the Alexa Skills Kit and the Amazon Echo, we will learn how to control the physical and virtual robots through voice.

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Walt Quesada, about his experience building Alexa Skills with .NET and the Alexa Skills Kit. Walt has also written a course for Pluralsight on the same topic as well as on his website. Walt's Website: http://qnovations.com Alexa Skills Kit .NET Pluralsight Course: http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/amazon-echo-developing-alexa-skills Github projects: https://github.com/AreYouFreeBusy/AlexaSkillsKit.NET https://github.com/boblautenbach/amazon-ask-linking

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa community members Galactoise and Chiaco about building for the Alexa Skills Kit, creating an engaging Alexa skill, how to test and debug your skills, how they build an Alexa emulator as well as important lessons they have learned along the way.

In this episode Dave and Charlie discuss the launch of Smart Home Skill API for Alexa Skills Kit, give insights to some of their own history in Smart Home, talk about what solutions developers are building, and more.