<story><title>An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python</title><url>https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3a8f27f3-d724-4e0b-bc72-0dcddd0b2eab/announcing-an-easier-way-to-build-alexa-skills-using-python</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oulipo</author><text>If you care about your privacy, you can also build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for free using &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snips.ai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snips.ai&lt;/a&gt; (disclaimer: I&amp;#x27;m a co-founder)&lt;p&gt;We are building an open-source and 100% private-by-design Voice AI platform, and you can code your first private assistant in less than 1h: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;snips-ai&amp;#x2F;building-a-voice-controlled-home-sound-system-using-snips-and-sonos-2aaf16523ce9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;snips-ai&amp;#x2F;building-a-voice-controlled-home...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python</title><url>https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3a8f27f3-d724-4e0b-bc72-0dcddd0b2eab/announcing-an-easier-way-to-build-alexa-skills-using-python</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnufied</author><text>I own several Echo devices and programmability of Alexa devices just baffles me.&lt;p&gt;There is still no way for a skill to read notifications. For example - I want to write a calendar notification app which unifies all calendar events across several sources and there is just no way to do it.  It is of course disabled in the name of privacy which I can understand - but I don&amp;#x27;t understand how I can&amp;#x27;t enable this for a device that I own from an app I write.&lt;p&gt;Similarly - I was considering getting an Echo Show for keeping a persistent view of my todo list and upcoming things on Echo show. I looked at writing skills for Echo show. Something that should be a webapp that just renders a particular source or something similar. But nope - It just looks hard or impossible.</text></comment>