How to create an Amazon Alexa skill

http://www.techworld.com/tutorial/apps/how-create-amazon-alexa-skill-3654733/

Alexa is a 'smart' personal assistant made available to the public by the Amazon Echo in 2015 offering voice-driven applications that can be enabled to provide a whole host of information and run a range of tasks.

Amazon offers plenty of skills (voice-enabled apps) ranging from news, travel planners and smart home skills to bedtime stories for children, fun facts and games.

Through the Echo, Alexa can perform various tasks such as play music, look up the weather, turn your heating up or down and even (if configured correctly) make you a cup of tea in the morning...well boil the kettle anyway.

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