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Amazon Alexa Skill Development Tutorial: How to Generate Non-Repeating Random Numbers using Voiceflow
Update (July 3, 2020) Updated to reflect a Voiceflow UI change. Utilize the new Else prompt feature in the Choice step for No Match. This improves the overall appearance of the flows on the canvas, avoiding the “figure-8” configuration. The demo skill built using this tutorial is now available in the Voiceflow Community Marketplace. You… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill Development Tutorial: How to Generate Non-Repeating Random Numbers using Voiceflow
Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 2 for Alexa Polly Voice and Language Tags – UPDATED!
Update: October 10, 2020 Added a cross-reference table to more clearly delineate incompatible tags. Introduction The voice and language SSML tags options are a powerful feature for Alexa skill developers. They can be incorporated directly into Alexa skills in-line with text that is to be recited. This article includes a simple worksheet from which the… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 2 for Alexa Polly Voice and Language Tags – UPDATED!
Amazon Alexa Skill Development Tutorial: How to Get the User’s Day of the Week using Voiceflow
Update (May 10, 2020) Updated to reflect Voiceflow UI changes as of May 10, 2020. A demo skill built using this tutorial is now available in the Voiceflow Community Marketplace. You can view and download it as a template. Get User’s Day of the Week on the Voiceflow Community Marketplace Introduction At some point in… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill Development Tutorial: How to Get the User’s Day of the Week using Voiceflow
Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial: How to configure a compound statement in the VoiceFlow IF Block – UPDATED!
Updates Updated March 14, 2020 to reflect the Voiceflow February 4th, 2020 new releases. Introduction VoiceFlow is a powerful skill-building tool, incorporating a variety of features including IF blocks for configuring IF statements. Compound IF statements can be built using AND, OR and NOT. For example: The structure of the above formula is common. Having… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial: How to configure a compound statement in the VoiceFlow IF Block – UPDATED!
Amazon Alexa Skills Development: English Regional Speechcons SSML Cross Reference Worksheet – UPDATED!
Update September 12, 2019 Amazon has added 100+ new Speechcons for English/United States (EN/US). The cross-reference sheet has been updated. INTRODUCTION Alexa Speechcons can really enliven your skill. However during design, it can be time-consuming determining which ones can be used among the various English-speaking regions. It can also be time-consuming to copy, paste and… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development: English Regional Speechcons SSML Cross Reference Worksheet – UPDATED!
Amazon Alexa VUI Design: Slot Type Cross Reference Worksheets – Updated December 7, 2019
Update December 7, 2019 The worksheets have been updated to reflect expanded locale support for the PhoneNumber and Ordinal slot types. Amazon’s announcement: The Built-In FallbackIntent, PhoneNumber Slot (Beta), and Ordinal Slot (Beta) Get Expanded Locale Support Introduction The Amazon reference documentation and Alexa Developer Console (ADC) organizes the available built-in slot types by region.… Continue reading Amazon Alexa VUI Design: Slot Type Cross Reference Worksheets – Updated December 7, 2019
Amazon Alexa Skill: Cat Music
Ask Alexa to play music tracks designed just for your cat! You can say “Alexa, play Cat Music” “Alexa, begin Cat Music” “Alexa, start Cat Music” Currently six songs are available, and more will be published soon. If you make a video of your cat, be sure to flag it in the comments below, include… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: Cat Music
Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 9: Twelve Genderless Polly Voices
This article provides a worksheet with twelve Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) “formulas” for genderless (gender-neutral) synthetic voices. The first four can be used directly in Alexa skills for Text-to-Speech (TTS) using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and the various skill building tools, while the other eight can be used to make audio recordings using… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 9: Twelve Genderless Polly Voices