Amazon has voice services and the brain of millions of devices like Alexa or the echo family. The main function of the service is that Alexa offers skills or abilities to allow customers to create a more personal experience. Alexa skills are also offered from companies like Starbucks, Uber as well as other innovative companies.
What is the Alexa Skills Kit?
It is a collection of tools, documentation and code examples that will help you to quickly and easily add skills to Alexa.
Why build Skills?
Reach and delight customers in new ways.
The language design experience is a footprint to redesign your customer experience. Create new voice experiences, visual and touch interfaces. Amazon attract customers with devices like Fire TV, the Echo family of devices and third-party for example s ecobee’s Sonos One speakers and smart thermostats.
Make Money.
Did you know, when you develop engaging skills with compelling content, customers win. Now you can earn money with your idea.
Build your own Skills.
4 Steps to build your own Alexa Skill
- Learn
You should know about the Alexa Skills Kit and learn how you can add voice to your idea.
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/learn
- Design
Start to learn how to create for voice sketch your idea and the interaction behind.
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/design
- Build
To build the new skill is no coding skills required. I found three different kind of tools were you can build your Alexa skills.
Tools:
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/build#
- Launch
The most important part is to launch your skill in the Alexa Skills Store and reach as many customers to earn money.
Don’t forget to test your skill!
Before launching your new Alexa skill make sure it’s working as you thought. You can gather feedback to remove issues, bugs and ununderstandable functions. Afterwards make improvements before launching your idea.
There is a test simulator available where you can test and simply interact with your skill. The next step will be Echosim. It is a online community tool simulates the experience of an Amazon Echo. The last step is to invite beta users to try your skill and gather feedback. Last update and refine the Interface before publishing.
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit
