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Amazon Wants Alexa To Read Blog Posts and Broadcast Church Sermons (cnet.com)
Amazon's Alexa Skills Blueprints are free online templates that let you create custom Alexa tricks without needing to code. Now, the online retailer is giving those blueprints some new tricks of their own. From a report: Announced in a blog post Wednesday morning, the newest Skill Blueprints are "built specifically for content creators, bloggers, and organizations so they can reach anyone with an Alexa-enabled device." Skills created with any of Amazon's blueprints can now be submitted to Amazon for certification and publication in the Alexa app's Skills Store in the US. "Keep your skill personal to Alexa-enabled devices associated with your Amazon account, share it with friends and family, or publish it so anyone can discover, use and review your skill," Amazon says. That open approach might help bolster the number of Alexa skills available in the Alexa app.
An artificial intelligence, built from science and technology, sharing messages of religion?
> Amazon AI plug-in for WordPress and provide the blueprint with an RSS feed.
Everything I see on this is literally just using RSS to do the equivalent of a podcast to the Alexa device, then later converting this on Alexa's servers via text-to-speech.
They could literally just do podcast support and achieve not only the same goals, but START OUT with hundreds of thousands of "broadcasts". Wordpress also comes RSS enabled by default.
This plugin I cannot see what it does at all except make the process more complicated and to get in their own ways. Maybe they just want to "certify" those RSS feeds and only allow those they allow. This is just a moronic gated version of podcasting.