Amazon introduced Alexa Blueprints which was a new way to create your own personalized skills and responses for Alexa and users could take advantage of the easy-to-use templates to create customized experiences for Alexa within minutes just by filling in the blanks. In similar lines, starting today, Amazon will enable anyone to publish their skills created using Alexa Skill Blueprints to the India Alexa Skills Store.
Amazon now enables its customers to create and share their Alexa skills and reach a wider audience with the new ‘publishing feature’ on Alexa Skill Blueprints. This allows users to choose from over 30 templates to create their personalized skills in minutes and submit it for certification, which then can be enabled by anyone from the India Alexa Skills Store.
Using Skill Blueprints, users can use over 30 templates to create their own personal Alexa skill in minutes and also choose from a variety of categories including Fun & Games, Learning and Knowledge, At Home and Storyteller to create custom games, unique stories, or household lists.
Additionally, Amazon is also introducing four new Skill Blueprints built specifically for creators, bloggers, and organizations.
- Firstly, Content creators will be able to use the new Flash Briefing blueprint to publish and share their latest updates on the Alexa Skills Store.
- Customers will be able to add the content into their Flash Briefing just as they do for other Flash Briefing skills.
- Bloggers who use WordPress can deliver their posts as audio through Alexa with the Blog blueprint.
- Universities and religious organizations can use the new University and Spiritual Talks blueprints to make their live and recorded audio content accessible on Alexa-enabled devices.
Apart from this, users can also create a personal skill for just their household, share one with friends and family, or publish their blueprint skill to the Alexa Skills Store. Personal skills that are limited to a customer’s local device do not go through a certification process since they aren’t published to the Alexa Skills Store.
Amazon says that users need to abide by their content guidelines, and they can review and rate the skill up to 5 stars like any other skill on the Alexa Skills Store.
Commenting on this, Dilip R.S., Country Manager for Alexa Skills, Amazon India, said:
With today’s announcement, we are excited to launch four new Skill Blueprints built specifically for content creators, bloggers, and organizations, so they can reach anyone with an Alexa-enabled device – with no coding required. Being able to publish a blueprint skill allows customers and content creators to share their passions, creativity, and interests with anyone even though they may not have a technical background.