Good news! After the initial US release, followed by Germany, the UK and India, the family of Amazon Echo products can be purchased in over 80 countries. The languages supported are German and English, the latter with 3 different locales (US, Britain and India). Here’s the official news.
For Europe, the German Amazon store has a bargain Echo Dot 2nd generation for just 35 euros.
Time for me to review my skills, be sure multilanguage is well implemented, to be ready to add my own. Surely it’s around the corner 😉
As we said last week, Amazon is investing heavily (and working hard, too) towards a world of things connected to the Internet where we interact with objects (and robots…) with natural language. With voice.
Finding innovative and clever ways of integrating Alexa Skills into maker projects.
The criteria will be:
Use of a Raspberry Pi (20 points)
Creativity (15 points)
Use of Voice User Interface (VUI) best practices (15 points)
Story/Instruction – Show how you created your project, including images, screenshots, and/or video (10 Points)
Project Documentation including VUI diagram (10 Points)
Code – Include working code with helpful comments (15 Points)
Published Skill (20 Points)
Alexa Voice Services and Pi
Making devices come alive by adding voice interactions.
And the criteria:
Use of a Raspberry Pi (20 points)
Creativity (15 points)
Use of Voice User Interface (VUI) best practices (15 points)
Story/Instruction – Show how you created your project, including images, screenshots, and/or video (10 Points)
Project Documentation including VUI diagram (10 Points)
Code – Include working code with helpful comments (15 Points)
BONUS – Published skill (10 points)
There’s 3 prizes for each category. This is the part that Amazon covers, so you won’t be surprised by this kind of bounty: Trophy, Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, $1,500 Gift Card for the first prize.
You can enter here. Submissions close on 1st August 2016. So far, 119 contestants, no projects submitted yet.
