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Unable to Remove Alexa Skills from Store

Unable to Remove Alexa Skills from Store

Alexa can be the roach motel of skills; They go IN but don't come OUT Developers unable to remove their skills from the Alexa Store   We had an instance where we needed to remove a skill from the Alexa store for a period of time. Normally, this is easy: just...

Alexa’s Showstopper bugs in their APL code

Oh, the many challenges with Alexa Presentation Language (APL) Our experience with Alexa Skills Challenge: Beyond Voice Amazon periodically holds hackathon contests to get Alexa developers to build skills that use certain Alexa capabilities. The most recent one is the...

World Meet MAVIS

World Meet MAVIS

Meet MAVIS - Multimedia Audio Visual Interface System   Today we are proud to introduce the world to MAVIS. MAVIS stands for Multimedia Audio Visual Interface System and is the product of 7+ person years of technology development combined into one powerful...

Alexa Flash Briefing Woes

Alexa Flash Briefing Woes

  Some Unexpected Challenges with Alexa Flash Briefings Creating an Alexa Flash Briefing skill is very simple. However, there are a couple of gotchas, and one that’s not documented as far as I can tell.   Broken Feed URL When you create a Flash Briefing...