040: How to Write Apps for Alexa and Google Home – With Chip Edwards

Writing Apps for Alexa? Google Home? Yes! Listen in as programmer Chip Edwards of CreateMyVoice.com shares his tips for writing apps for Alexa and Google Home smart speakers.

In this episode, you’ll learn that “apps” in the smart speaker world are actually called “skills” (for Amazon’s Alexa) and “actions” for Google Home. Chip Edwards shares what he’s learned along the way. So if you’re a programmer, listen in. If you know any coders, then please share this episode with them.

CHip Edwards’s new company, CreateMyVoice.com, creates skills and actions for smart speakers. His skills for Alexa enables blogs and podcasts and their branding to be heard upon command. How cool is that?!

You’ll also learn about Lee’s NYC Hot Spot, Shakespeare’s Garden in Central Park.

If YOU want to start a podcast, register for Lee’s ‘CastShop NYC on Thursday, October 25th on the Upper West Side (UWS) at Da Capo. She’ll be there along with You Wanna Do What?’s Monica Rivera; Podcast with Jennifer’s Jennifer Longworth; and co-hosts Kelli Johnson of Kelli Out Loud and Beatriz Reynoso of Problematic or Nah. They’ll guide you along this hands-on, one-day podcasting workshop. CLICK TO REGISTER!

RESOURCES:
‘CastShop NYC ==> Register Today! (Space is limited!)
CreateMyVoice.com
Amazon’s Website for Developers 
Google Home’s Website for Developers
The Blind Blogger, Maxwell Ivey
Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference

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