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    How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill
    How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill
    How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill
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    How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill

    By Michael Shaw

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    This 15 page E-booklet explains how to make a simple Flash Briefing Skill for an Amazon Echo device. Your content will be read by Alexa as part of the subscriber's Daily Flash Briefing. The author walks you through all of the steps with plenty of pictures showing screenshots of the simple process. No coding knowledge is needed, and all you need is a free blog and an Echo device to get started.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Shaw
    Release dateJan 1, 2020
    ISBN9780463283141
    How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill
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    Michael Shaw

    By profession, Mike is a professional musician, working as a keyboard player and private music teacher. Mike has been teaching piano, electronic keyboard and electric organ for over thirty years and as a keyboard player worked in many night clubs and entertainment venues. Mike has also branched out in to composing music and has written and recorded many new royalty free tracks which are used worldwide in TV, film and internet media applications. "My favourite piece of music is "Music" by John Miles, it describes how my life has been and continues to be, I consider myself very lucky" Mike is also proud of the fact that many of his students have gone on to be musicians, composers and teachers in their own right. "Learning to play a piano, keyboard or any musical instrument is the greatest gift anybody can gives themselves" Listen to Mikes royalty free music here: http://audiojungle.net/user/audiomichaeld/portfolio?ref=audiomichaeld See Mike playing the Roland Atelier organ on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/captinmichaeld

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      How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill - Michael Shaw

      How to Create an Alexa Flash Briefing Skill

      by Michael Shaw

      Published by Michael Shaw - at Smashwords

      Copyright 2020 by Michael Shaw

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