“Karaoke Mode” with Alexa.NET & Alexa Presentation Language
Using the new Alexa Presentation Language in .NET Core with Alexa.NET
Category Archives: C#
One Hell of a Journey
Alexa.NET Polly SupportAlexa.NET.APL v.15A dash of Riker Ipsum for good measure Everything below this line is a small reflection on how I got here – you don’t have to read it. I was looking at my GitHub and NuGet profiles this morning and as of the recent APL support and… Read more »
Managing Skill Content with Alexa.NET & Contentful
So you have your skill, everything’s deployed and sounds fantastic and your users are happy. How often does a blog article start with that? But that’s where we need to start in this article. Your skill is beautifully crafted, and when a user comes back it picks one of two… Read more »
In-Skill Purchasing with Alexa.NET
Amazon have been super busy recently, and one of the most exciting announcements for me to be able to look into has been the ability to have in-skill purchasing. What this means is that your skill can now ask a user to make a purchase without ever leaving the echo… Read more »
Skill Discovery & CanFulfillIntentRequest in Alexa.NET
Amazon have released a fabulous new update to the way Alexa works. If a user makes a request without a skill name and Alexa can’t handle it, machine learning kicks in and some of the most likely skills to handle it are sent a new kind of request asking if… Read more »
Alexa .NET – Handlers and Interceptors
I think I may genuinely be running out of packages to write for the .NET Alexa community, but this one was important I got finished before I looked for my next project (I’ve not developed an actual skill in some time – it’s been all about the NuGet packages recently!)… Read more »
Creating a quiz with Echo Buttons and Alexa.NET.Gadgets
In my last article I wrote a little about using Gadgets with the Amazon Echo – specifically (at least at the moment) the Echo Buttons. We talked about the concept of the Gadget Controller changing the state of the buttons and the Game Engine interpreting the interactions. So now what?… Read more »
Alexa Gadgets, great! Erm…what are they?
So after a long period of “coming soon”, Amazon have released the Gadgets Skill API Beta! And sticking to my previous goal of making the development of skills easier for .NET Core developers I’ve created a NuGet package to help with that. Originally I was planning to just go straight… Read more »
Super Quick Blog: Alexa Sound Library
Amazon have just announced the Alexa Sound Library To use these sounds Amazon tell you to add an SSML Audio tag. I submitted SSML support as a PR to Alexa.NET a while back, so to use these new sounds just use the following code after adding a package reference to… Read more »
Package Design: They’re not your requests
I had a request come through regarding one of my NuGet packages yesterday. It’s primarily a wrapper around an API, and there was a problem with it deserializing one of the requests – the user was seeing the API perform the call (it altered the server resource) but it was… Read more »