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How do you create a podcast's Alexa skill in no time and without a line of code? Through Blueprints! Alessio Pomaro Alessio Pomaro May 4, 2021 •2 min read How to create a podcast's Alexa skill in minutes In the video we see how to create a skill that allows you to play a podcast through Alexa in a few minutes. We do this through Blueprints , i.e. the templates made available by Amazon. The template we use is " University ", which was created specifically for publishing courses.
The data required for creation are: the audio source , for example an India Mobile Number Data RSS feed of a podcast or the URL of a live stream (in the example I use the feed of Giorgio Taverniti's FastForward podcast); " welcome " and " welcome back " messages , to personalize the user experience; a name for the skill , which will then be used for the activation phrase (" Alexa, open <skill name> "). The initial screen for creating the Skill with the Amazon Alexa Skill Blueprint The initial screen for creating the Skill with the Amazon Alexa Skill Blueprint The skill not only allows you to listen to the podcast, but also to control its playback through your voice.
Alexa, give me the previous episode ." Once created, the Skill remains available to the Amazon account that created it, but it is possible: share it with other users (for example with the family); publish it , then make it publicly available to anyone who uses the trigger phrase. It could also become an innovative system for corporate communications ! Does this mean we can create professional voice applications without development? NO, but it's a way to get closer to how voice apps work.
The data required for creation are: the audio source , for example an India Mobile Number Data RSS feed of a podcast or the URL of a live stream (in the example I use the feed of Giorgio Taverniti's FastForward podcast); " welcome " and " welcome back " messages , to personalize the user experience; a name for the skill , which will then be used for the activation phrase (" Alexa, open <skill name> "). The initial screen for creating the Skill with the Amazon Alexa Skill Blueprint The initial screen for creating the Skill with the Amazon Alexa Skill Blueprint The skill not only allows you to listen to the podcast, but also to control its playback through your voice.
Alexa, give me the previous episode ." Once created, the Skill remains available to the Amazon account that created it, but it is possible: share it with other users (for example with the family); publish it , then make it publicly available to anyone who uses the trigger phrase. It could also become an innovative system for corporate communications ! Does this mean we can create professional voice applications without development? NO, but it's a way to get closer to how voice apps work.