What is Alexa?
Alexa is a virtual Assistant simply like Google Home, developed by Amazon to interact with the users. It engages with the user and helps to perform certain skills like Setting up alarm, weather, notes, choosing music, voice search, and calling.
What is Alexa Skills Reward Program?
Amazon Alexa is looking to expand its program in India for Hindi speaking customers. If you are a developer from India and good at Hindi and are interested to make some innovation in developing the Alexa, then you can register with the Alexa Skills. This Reward program will help you to make money and also gives you AWS promotional Credits.
How to get started with Alexa Skills?
To get started with this program you need to register your details at amazon skills, and can use their developing kit called Alexa Skill Kit where you can use their API and other Modules for free to develop your skills. If you are not a developer you can still participate in the program by hiring Agencies or using their free Blueprint ( https://blueprints.amazon.com/). Amazon will provide you with all the free material and courses where you can learn on your own to build, design, and launch.
Important points to remember:
- You need to have a basic knowledge of Hindi and English.
- You can choose from the eligible categories like Education, Food & Drinks, Health, Lifestyle, Music and Productivity.
- To make most of the reward you need to develop the skills in which you can engage more with the customer.
- You need to keep up to date with the information, increasing your skills can help you engage more with the customer and also will increase your earnings and rewards.
- For Tips and increasing user engagement, you can register a free guidance program at Amazon where you can find many tips for building standout skills.
- for more details about this program visit: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/learn/build-a-business/rewards
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