How to create your first Alexa skill

For the last couple of weeks, Graham, Marcel, Sinem and I, from Red Badger, have been experimenting with Amazon’s Alexa Echo Dot. An Electric Hockey Puck that uses voice recognition powered by Amazon Alexa voice assistant. In this post, I’d like to explain how one goes about creating their first Alexa skill. Unboxing The first thing we need to do after unboxing is to download the Alexa app from respective app store. Follow the instructions to connect it to WiFi. Once connected, Alexa should be ready and listening for requests, questions or commands. One caveat By the time of writing… [Continue Reading]