Alexa Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg
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UPDATED: Our very first kick-off meeting will feature:
Amazon employee and Alexa Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg
Jeff will share the vision for Alexa, and talk about how you too can create voice enabled interfaces for your users with Alexa.
Amazon Alexa, the cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo and Dot provides access to thousands of skills that enable customers to voice control their world, whether it’s listening to music hands free, controlling their smart home devices with a simple 'ask' of “turn on the lights,” setting timers when their hands are busy in the kitchen, listening to the news in the morning as they get ready for work, or even ordering a pizza.
You don’t need to have a background in natural language understanding (NLU) or speech recognition to build great voice experiences for Alexa. Amazon provides a series of free, self-service, public APIs like the Alexa Skills Kit (https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit) and Alexa Voice Service (https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service) allowing developers to build new skills for Alexa and integrate Alexa into their products and services.
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There will be time for Q&A as well.
There are only 40 seats available, so be sure to sign up now!
Sponsors Billy Dees of PerfectMediaProds and Agile Audio Dashboards™ have teamed up to give away a new Amazon Alexa Dot. Must be present to win and at least 18yrs of age.
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Expect guest speakers each month with insights into Alexa and how she can make a difference in the world. Plus, a quick demo of our sponsor(s)' products.
"Voice Changes Everything!" —Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey, Founder of Afients™