Developing Amazon Alexa Games Quotes

“We have been experimenting with a third, hybrid approach where we use one (or more) Alexa generated voices. The AWS Polly™ service provides several voices of different genders and accents. All are close to the quality of Alexa’s native voice. You could write a tool to generate the audio files from your text using these other voices.”
― Joseph Jaquinta, Developing Amazon Alexa Games: A Game Designer’s Handbook

“key building blocks of an Alexa skill (intents, utterances, and slots)”
― Joseph Jaquinta, Developing Amazon Alexa Games: A Game Designer’s Handbook

“comes out to about two or three cents for every five seconds of game-playing.”
― Joseph Jaquinta, Developing Amazon Alexa Games: A Game Designer’s Handbook

“estimate that payouts will amount to 0.003–$0.01 per unit (TBD) for Google and $0.019–$0.035 per utterance for Amazon. It”
― Joseph Jaquinta, Developing Amazon Alexa Games: A Game Designer’s Handbook

“Based on reports from developers in the Alexa Slack channel, it seems most developers receive something around $100 a month–not enough to get excited about–but it is better than nothing. There is a continuum of payouts, and we know some developers who received around $1500, though that dropped off in the second month as new games were introduced. A very few (maybe five?) may receive $5,000 or possibly as much as $10,000. But it is a very, very short list at that level of payout.”
― Joseph Jaquinta, Developing Amazon Alexa Games: A Game Designer’s Handbook