Ask Alexa to play music tracks that are ideal for dancing! These are original songs that are easy to choreograph, dance to, and most importantly, fun! Ideal for dance studios, dance conventions, dance competitions and parties. Great for warming up dancers at the beginning of classes. These songs are designed with dance instructors, choreographers and… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: Dance Music
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Amazon Alexa Skill: Malcolm X Quotes
Alexa reads randomly selected quotes by Malcolm X using a male voice. You can say: “Alexa, open Malcolm X Quotes” “Alexa, start Malcolm X Quotes” “Alexa, launch Malcolm X Quotes” Alexa Skills Store Links This skill is FREE to enable and use. Follow the Amazon Skills Store links to enable, or enable using your Amazon… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: Malcolm X Quotes
Amazon Alexa Skill: Bees Flowers Bears Game
Recent Updates December 30, 2018: A scoring system has been added. This game is FREE to enable and use. The Game Play the Bees Flowers Bears game with Alexa! Sometimes the bee wins, sometimes the flower wins, and sometimes the bear wins! You can say: “Alexa, open bees flowers bears!” How To Play The game… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: Bees Flowers Bears Game
Amazon Alexa Skill: U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Latest Tweets
Listen to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) most recent tweets. You can listen to the last ten tweets, five tweets or just the last tweet, and keep up with their latest announcements. Alexa will read the latest tweets from the U.S. Geological Survey’s account, @USGS. You can say: “Alexa, begin u. s. g. s. tweets”… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Latest Tweets
Amazon Alexa Skill: U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Tweets
Listen to the U.S. Department Of Energy’s (DOE) most recent tweets. You can listen to the last ten tweets, five tweets or just the last tweet, and keep up with their latest announcements. Alexa will read the latest tweets from the Energy Department’s account, @ENERGY. You can say: “Alexa, begin US Department of Energy tweets”… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Tweets
Amazon Alexa Skill: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tweets
Listen to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most recent tweets. You can listen to the last ten tweets, five tweets or just the last tweet, and keep up with their latest announcements. Alexa will read the tweets from the EPA’s account, @EPA. You can say: “Alexa, begin US EPA tweets” “Alexa, start US EPA… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tweets
Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial: How to Retrieve Records from Airtable into Invocable: Method 1 – GET Records
UPDATE: November 15, 2018 Images and text have been updated to reflect Storyline being rebranded to Invocable. Introduction The Invocable prototyping tool enables easy integration with Airtable for data processing. Utilizing Airtable is an ideal way to store rows of interrelated data and retrieve them into your Invocable projects and ultimately your Alexa skills. Level: … Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial: How to Retrieve Records from Airtable into Invocable: Method 1 – GET Records
Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial: How to Enhance Alexa with SSML using the Voice and Tone Simulator
Updates: January 30th, 2019: Updated to reflect use with the Voiceflow skill building tool. Additional updates coming soon regarding the URL changes for the Amazon Sound Library, and to discuss the Alexa Polly voice SSML tags. Level: Beginner This tutorial is designed for Alexa Voice Skill Designers and Developers, and no coding experience is required.… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial: How to Enhance Alexa with SSML using the Voice and Tone Simulator
Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 1 – UPDATED!
Update: December 6, 2020 Additional SSML support was announced by Amazon on November 24th, 2020: Alexa Speaking Styles and Emotions Now Available in Additional Languages The worksheets and incompatible tags chart have been updated. Summary of changes: Music speaking style: Canadian English and British English are now supported. Conversational speaking style: Japanese and Italian are… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 1 – UPDATED!