Archive for December 2019
How to Reserve Your Voice Domain Name on Google – Google Action Whitelabeling
One question I’ve been asked very often since the first ever Nashville Voice Conference on July 31, 2019 is – how do I reserve my voice app’s opening phrase on Google? The technical way to ask this would be “how do I create an opening invocation on Google Actions?” But that’s not exactly what these…
Read MoreHOW TO PUBLISH AN ALEXA FOR BUSINESS PRIVATE SKILL & INVITE MANAGE USERS – DATA DRIVEN DAILY TIP 350
I love Alexa for Business. You just need an AWS account to deploy Private Alexa Skills to employees of your organization. You can also use it to manage company-owned devices and which company private skills can be used on personal employee devices. What you’ll need: 1. An Alexa Skill built and ready to deploy for your organization/employees/specific private…
Read MoreHow To Change and Replace Alexa’s Voice – Data Driven Daily Tip 349
I was recently asked a question while presenting about how to build voice apps that caught my attention. The attendee asked if I thought that human interaction would change to a dulled down monotone voice with each other, because so many people are talking to Alexa, and that’s how Alexa talks. My answer is NO,…
Read MoreHow I Built An Alexa Skill With My 10 Year Old Son – Data Driven Daily Tip 348
There are basically four main ways that I build Voice Apps (Alexa Skills and Google Actions). 1. Amazon Alexa Blueprints and Google Action Templates – these are pre-built Voice Apps that allow content marketers and developers to change and customize the content in the flow. These can include some cool functionality though, such as Business…
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