Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1261

Hello, Happy Monday. Teri here. And today I want to dive into another feature that was recently announced at the Alexa Live event, which is now, I guess about almost two weeks ago.

And, one of these…. is something called the Featured Skills in Discovery Phrases. And, if you’re like me, there have been times when I’ve tried to say things to Alexa like, “Alexa, I need a workout. Alexa, let’s play a game. Alexa, tell me a story”, those sort of general statements.

And, in fact, Amazon says that there are millions of these discovery-oriented utterances per month that Alexa customers are making.

What Amazon just announced is that developers can now have their skills suggested as one of Alexa’s responses to those popular discovery phrases.

And that’ll be both from voice and also show up on the screen.

There are millions of these discovery oriented utterances per month that Alexa customers are making

Featured Skills in Discovery Phrases Announced at the Alexa Live Event

So this is really interesting because now this gives developers an opportunity to have their skills highlighted when somebody asks a general question. So I think this is great.

I think it’s going to give us more ways to interact with skills going forward. One of the things I don’t know is, you know, some of these features that were announced during the Alexa Live event.

Some of them they weren’t clear on… on whether these were available in Canada at the same time they’re available in the United States. So we’re gonna have to see as these get rolled out.

But right now, this is something that is available to developers to start working on. And I’m excited to see where this takes us. So, there you go. There’s another feature.

It’s called the Featured Skills in Discovery Phrases. And, looking forward to seeing that. Alright. Have a wonderful day and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.

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Voice in Canada Flash Briefing Icon1. Open your Alexa app and click on the Menu button > Settings > Flash Briefing.
2. Click on “Add Content” and search for “Voice in Canada”.
3. Click on “Voice in Canada” and the Enable button.

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