Amazon Wants Alexa To Read Blog Posts and Broadcast Church Sermons

Amazon's Alexa Skills Blueprints are free online templates that let you create custom Alexa tricks without needing to code. Now, the online retailer is giving those blueprints some new tricks of their own. From a report: Announced in a blog post Wednesday morning, the newest Skill Blueprints are 'built specifically for content creators, bloggers, and organizations so they can reach anyone with an Alexa-enabled device.' Skills created with any of Amazon's blueprints can now be submitted to Amazon for certification and publication in the Alexa app's Skills Store in the US. 'Keep your skill personal to Alexa-enabled devices associated with your Amazon account, share it with friends and family, or publish it so anyone can discover, use and review your skill,' Amazon says. That open approach might help bolster the number of Alexa skills available in the Alexa app.

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