Alexa In Canada: Amazon Alexa And Echo Skills, Tips, And Tricks For Canadians

In this episode, Teri welcomes Braden Ream, one of the co-founders of Voiceflow.Welcome Braden Ream!He is a Canadian and lives in Toronto. Their platform makes it very easy for both people getting started in Alexa skills and also seasoned developers who are looking for a more efficient way to code.Starting off in Voice TechnologyHis co-founder had an idea to create the “Honey for Voice Shopping” Honey is the Chrome extension that enables people to get the best price that applies coupons. They wanted to apply that to voice shopping and this is what got them involved in voice. There were some technical limitations because Amazon and Google didn’t want that at that time.They then started a children’s started a children’s stories app called Fable. They were read along children stories on Amazon Alexa. They built the initial MVP on storyline. They were writing the stories by hand and printing physical books. The user would read a line and Alexa would essentially see the line that was read and match it to the inten