Internet related News · 2018-11-01

Music to developers’ ears as Alexa may soon play their audio Content

If music be the food of love, Alexa, play on. The Bard may have been more than happy to have his works read out to him by Alexa, but it’s the music element we are talking about here & therefore, the quote. In what may sound like music to developers’ ears, streaming services can now connect their Online music via Alexa Music Skill API. Their music catalog till now enthralled a few, but Music Skill API in the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) will expand outreach of their audio Content to customers in the US who can play their favorite numbers using their Echo devices or other Alexa powered gadgets.

Hitting the right chord with audio Content developers, Amazon made this announcement on its recent blog post.

The Music Skill API gives you self-service access to the Alexa capabilities you need to enable customers to search your catalog via voice, & stream their choices to Amazon Echo & other Alexa-compatible devices.

Jazz it up

Developers can make available their music catalog metadata to Amazon on a regular basis, saving them the need to create their own voice user interface. Post which, Amazon will update the Alexa voice model & grammars used by customers.

Play it by ear

After developers build & publish their music skill, users can stream to any Amazon Echo, Alexa enabled devices, or to several Echo devices using multi-room music. What’s more, these songs can double as alarms too.

To play music, customers need to utter the golden command: “Alexa, play songs by <artiste> from <your music service>.”

Fine tuning

Developers can power the experience with skip limits & stream protection. They may monitor & better ongoing skill performance incorporating event metrics which includes skill enablement & disablement, account linking & music playback. Not to mention, the self-service manner of using the Alexa Skills Kit.

Hit the right note

Available currently to use with US skills, developers may refer to Understanding the Music Skill API for a better comprehension. Apart from this, Amazon has also provided tools to the Certification tab in the Alexa developer console. This is to help developers validate their music skills before submission for certification.

 

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