Revamp your app with Alexa Skill Development

Before starting my article I want to share some data “In the first quarter of 2018, Amazon’s Alexa speakers are 61.9% stakeholders in U.S. Smart Speaker Market Share and this number increases to 79.6% for world sales for quarter 1 of 2018.”

Here is Everything You Need To Know Alexa Skill Development

Amazon Alexa is a voice-enabled device that works as per the commands of the user. Alexa provides a set of inbuilt capabilities which are known as Alexa skills. With the introduction of Alexa skills, industries and businesses started opting for Alexa skill development and Amazon echo integration.

This leads to an increase in the demand of Alexa skill developer. The focus of enterprises and businesses now has been transferred from simple mobile app developers to IoT Alexa skill developer. This article is for all those Startups, SMEs, and enterprises that are looking forward to Custom Alexa skill set integration, Alexa app Development, mobile app development for IoT Devices, and Cloud integration,

Demo: Alexa’s voice-enabled technology to build smart home apps.

Here we present the video demo for you to understand how this project was conceived and built.

This video will give you a basic understanding of voice-enabled technology and how it may be integrated with your company to increase your capabilities to serve your customers.

Amazon Alexa platform focuses on two specified areas of development

Alexa voice search:

Amazon Alexa uses Alexa voice service (AVS) to integrate Alexa voice enablement into devices, homes, cars and other physical objects which work with a microphone.

Alexa skills kit:

Alexa Skills Development triggers specific actions which lead to call for APIs and then respond as per that.

Due to its complete cloud based structure, Alexa is able to enroll enhancements and updates and as a result, it continues to grow smarter. Alexa can work wonders if skilled properly, it works on some predefined skill sets that can be used to program Alexa to collaborate with any IoT device.

Alexa voice search can work for two approaches:

1. Integrate Alexa into a voice enabled products and services

If you are having an Alexa-enabled product like a smart watch, sensor, thermostat then you can integrate Alexa with the embedded product.

2. Launch new ideas

You can come up with some innovations by integrating Alexa skills. This approach targets the start-ups to introduce some creative ideas. Amazon Alexa team also supports new ideas.

Did you know? The number of Alexa skills developed has reached to 15,000 this year.

How do Alexa skills work?

The Amazon device connects to the internet via the Wifi network of your home. And it wakes up whenever you call “ALEXA”. Your voice command will be followed and sent to a natural voice recognition service in the Amazon Lambda server. This natural voice recognition service is called “Alexa voice service”. The Alexa voice service integration interprets the command and sends back with an appropriate response.

Let’s check out some of the best Alexa skill sets

As I mentioned above Alexa works on skill sets. Several business and industries have opted for customized Alexa skill sets.

Smart Home Skills:

Consumer electronics include devices like smart lights, thermostats, AC, fan and much more. You can create Alexa skill and ask Alexa to turn on or off any device remotely. For example:

Alexa turn on my kitchen lights
Alexa increase the room temperature by 3 degree

Custom Skills:

These skills can handle any type of request. The user just has to command a request and Alexa will handle the intents to invoke the requests. For example order, a pizza, request a taxi and more.

Flash Briefing Skills:

Flash briefing skills provide original content to the users. Flash briefing provides the news headline, Alexa can play the audio content or can even read the news for the user.

Video Skills:

Video skills are used for providing video content for the user like shows and movies. You can ask Alexa to play a particular video for you.

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How you can use Amazon Alexa for your business:

Any business application can integrate with Amazon Alexa for Business to provide a new level of user experience to your customers. Your users can leverage your services from voice command only no need to even lift a finger.

What kind of business do you have? Here I will explain some of the industry and how developing Alexa skills can transform their business operations.

Food industry:

If you are having a restaurant, café or any shop then you can develop Alexa skills for your business. Your users can ask Alexa to order food, to track the order to check what’s new on the menu and many other features.

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Transport or Automotive:

Taxi booking app like Uber you can also integrate your transport & automotive app with Amazon Alexa. All you need is specified Amazon Alexa echo skills development that defines your app features.

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Music player app:

If you are having a music player app or you are considering the idea of developing a music player app then Amazon Alexa mobile app integration will be a great feature for your targeted audience. You can build Alexa skill to add features like playing a song, change the song, pause the song, play some specific playlist and more.

Travel agency:

Are you having a travel agency? Do you have a mobile app? Then you should connect your app to Amazon Alexa to help your customers to plan a vacation. They can track flights, check the prices of various hotels and flights and much more.

Entertainment:

Do you know Netflix is already having its connectivity with Amazon Alexa? So if you are having an entertainment app then you should have a feature that works on Amazon Alexa. Your customers will love the simple command and play feature.

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Fitness or dance:

Are you a fitness trainer or a dancer? Then I am sure you must be having an application to connect with your customers. But what about features like a direct command to a two minutes workout or a Zumba dance instruction? Your clients will be happier to access the app using voice commands.

Impressed by the impact of Alexa on the above industries? Try it in yours.

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