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Amazon Co-Hosting Developer Event To Teach Skills for Alexa Voice Control

Amazon is co-hosting an event Wednesday at SmartBear’s headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts, to teach developers how to build voice capabilities, called “skills,” for Alexa, the digital brain behind Echo and other Alexa-enabled devices. Skills enable users to interact with devices…

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in “more intuitive ways” using just voice, said the companies. The training shows how to use Amazon Web Services with the Alexa Skills Kit to create and test a skill using SmartBear’s tools, they said. The free event includes an open hackathon where attendees can get hands-on experience building a new Alexa skill with help from Alexa experts and have a chance to win Amazon devices.