XAPPmedia App Builds Alexa Skills in 5 Minutes

RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, September 28, 2017

XAPPmedia launches Voice Radio, a self-service offering that enables radio stations to build Amazon Alexa skills online in five minutes. From there, XAPPmedia reviews and tests the skills and when ready, submits them to Amazon for certification. The whole process takes about one week until the skill is live. Voice Radio is built on top of XAPP's Voice Media software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana voice assistant platforms.

"Just think. Someone at a radio station can take five minutes today to enter a few pieces of information into an online form and have their station live on Alexa next week. Our Voice Media platform provides interactive voice services for all types of media on Amazon Alexa. It also automates many of the Alexa skill development, deployment and management processes. Our beta testing proved that Voice Radio can deploy custom Alexa skills at scale. We are excited to provide a fast and affordable way for radio stations to reach their listeners directly through Amazon Alexa," said XAPPmedia CEO and co-founder Pat Higbie.

"We began building our Voice Media platform last year to streamline Alexa skill development, deployment and management. Our four years of work with interactive voice technology and close working relationship with Amazon accelerated this process and early access to the Amazon Alexa SMAPI moved it along even faster. We have used Voice Radio to build and deploy hundreds of radio stations already. In fact, we created and submitted more than 100 Alexa skills for radio in a single day," added XAPPmedia Chief Product Officer and co-founder Michael Myers.