Building an Interactive Alexa Quiz Skill, Part 2
Disclaimer: this was typed late at night on a tired mind. Please excuse typos, convention errors, and generally poor writing. 🙂 Howdy, Alexa nerds! Welcome back to our journey in learning Amazon Alexa Skill Development. Quick funny aside, would you care to guess my most common use of the Echo? It’s to play looong Spotify […]
Building an Interactive Quiz Alexa Skill, Part 1
Hello Alexa geeks! Welcome back to our journey of learning how to develop Amazon Alexa Skills for the Echo and more. Last time, we completed the build process for our first simple “fact-dispensing” Alexa Skill. In this article, we’ll start the process for a skill that accepts user input in the form of a quiz, […]
How to Build Your Own Amazon Alexa with a Raspberry Pi
Howdy, it’s been a minute since my last post on Alexa Skill Development. I left us hanging, as I mentioned in one of my previous SQL posts, work craziness, sickness, and general life stuff happening imposed a brief, involuntary hiatus on writing. Enough self talk to make future self feel better. Let’s build our own […]
Getting Started with Alexa Development 02: Signing Up to Alexa Development Portal
Welcome back to our journey in learning how to program Amazon Alexa Skills via Echo voice search. In the previous article, we walked through the process of setting up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Today, we’ll set up an account at the Alexa Development portal, a distinct entity from the AWS portal. Without […]
The Absolute Beginning for Amazon Alexa Voice Skill Development
An Introduction to this Alexa Learning Journey So if you’ve visited my site at all in the past, you’ll notice this is the most blogging I’ve done in…ever? Put another way, a significant confluence of factors has dialed up my motivation to doggedly pursue learning and growth. So, here we are at learning Alexa skills! […]