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Design Alexa Skills visually, without coding

Leverage Voiceflow's drag-and-drop steps to create Alexa Skills quickly without coding.

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Don't present a static flowchart, create fully functional prototypes with advanced logic, third party integrations and visuals- all powered by production ready code.

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Publish live Alexa Skills directly to the Alexa Skill store from Voiceflow without writing a line of code. Create high fidelity apps with all the functionality of custom coded Alexa Skills.

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Learn more about Alexa Skills

Hey, Alexa!
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Alexa skills are apps built on top of Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa. Skills can be built either by Amazon, or, they can also be built by third-party Amazon Alexa skill builders. There are now over 100,000 Alexa skills, and more are being created every day. Similar to how you can create a Google Action - you can create your own Alexa skill for anything - from allowing customers to place orders through voice to handling customer questions, or playing interactive podcast content.

‍Who uses Alexa Skills?
Alexa skills can be used by anyone with an Amazon Alexa device, the Amazon Alexa app, or any device that has incorporated Alexa. There are over 100 million Amazon Alexa devices worldwide, and thousands of hardware manufacturers who have incorporated Alexa into their own devices, including Volkswagen introducing Alexa into their Golf models.

Why create your own Alexa Skill?
Voice design is the intuitive next step in our world of technological engagement, both for personal and business use. Creating custom skills on Amazon Alexa can allow users to streamline their daily routines, and better engage with their favorite brands.
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And of course, you can also make money with Alexa skills as an Alexa skills developer. Using features like In-Skills Purchasing and the Amazon Pay integration, you can sell digital services like extra downloadable content, and physical goods like clothing all using voice!

There are four main steps to create an Alexa skill:

Design the Alexa Skill conversation workflow

When making a new Alexa skill, it's important to think about your Alexa skill's design. Voiceflow makes it easy to layout the conversational design of your Alexa skill. From basic concepts like choosing the personality of your Alexa skill to advanced concepts like dialog management, Voiceflow supports and makes the Alexa skill design process easy. For more information on Alexa skill design, checkout the Amazon's Alexa Design Guide here.

Build your conversation logic

After Alexa skill design, it's important to add the conversation logic to your Alexa skill to make it a more powerful, and personalized experience. Voiceflow makes conversational logic easy by giving you the tools to add conditions, variables, and expression statements all into your Alexa skill, without coding or needing a developer.

Protoype and test your Alexa Skill

Consequently, it's important to prototype what you've built with other people to be sure it's good and ready for a public release. Voiceflow makes Alexa skill prototyping easy by giving you the ability to test your Alexa skills on Alexa smart speaker devices. If you or your tester doesn't have an Alexa device, you can share a link to test projects in the browser instead.

Building a great Alexa skill is hard, but becomes easier with teamwork. Voiceflow supports team collaboration with advanced features like real-time collaboration and commenting, which allows you to have multiple team members working on your Alexa skill at the same time. With Voiceflow, you can work on your Alexa skills alone, or, invite the whole team to join in and collaborate.

Publish your Alexa Skill to the Skill App Store

After you've collaboratively designed, prototyped, and built your Alexa skill, it's now time to share it with the world. Voiceflow allows you to publish your Alexa skill to either just your personal Amazon Alexa echo device, with just friends and family with an Alexa device, or to the global Amazon Alexa skill app store.

To do this, all you have to do is link your Amazon account to Voiceflow, enter your Alexa skill name, description, and photo, and you'll be able to publish to the store. Within days, your Alexa skill will go live and allow for millions of people to use and enjoy your creation. With Voiceflow, you can even add advanced features like In-Skill Payments and Purchases, which allows you to monetize your Alexa skills and sell them to others.

Having trouble getting started?

Even if you don't have any Alexa skill ideas top of mind, you can still get started by joining the Alexa Skill builder community hosted by Voiceflow. In the Alexa Skill Community, you'll gain access to Alexa skill tutorials, learn how to build an Alexa skill, how to design an Alexa skill, and meet other Voiceflow users to collaborate with. Check out our community here.

Additional Resources:
Amazon Alexa documentation
Voiceflow support articles‍

"With Voiceflow we were able to quickly prototype real, personalized, user experiences that would have otherwise required our engineers to build them into production code."

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