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Alexa Skill Camps

May 24, 2021June 12, 2021 by Aariv Modi
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I’m AWS Certified!

November 24, 2020November 30, 2020 by Aariv Modi
My First Alexa Meetup!
May 18, 2019May 18, 2019 by Aariv Modi

My First Alexa Meetup!

It’s been a lot of firsts in the past few weeks! I was interviewed for the first time, went to my first Hackathon, and two days ago, on May 16th, I finally went to my first Alexa Dev Meetup!

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WHOA! My First Podcast Interview
April 25, 2019May 12, 2019 by Aariv Modi

WHOA! My First Podcast Interview

On April 20th, I had my very first podcast interview ever! Thank you, Dr. Teri Fisher, for being a wonderful host and for giving me this awesome opportunity.

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Adding Dashbot Analytics to your Alexa Skill
May 9, 2019May 12, 2019 by Aariv Modi

Adding Dashbot Analytics to your Alexa Skill

Dashbot is a service that helps you track your Alexa skill’s analytics more comprehensively than the Amazon Developer Portal. If your requirements are not satisfied with the data provided by the Dev Portal, then I would suggest using Dashbot.

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My First Hackathon!
April 28, 2019April 28, 2019 by Aariv Modi

My First Hackathon!

Today, I went to my very first Hackathon, and I’ll admit, I wasn’t thinking it would be very interesting. It was very fun and definitely worth the time.

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How to Implement Localization in your Alexa Skill
April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 by Aariv Modi

How to Implement Localization in your Alexa Skill

Adding localization is one of the easiest and best ways to improve your Alexa skill. Instead of only one country, countries all over the globe will use and enjoy your skill!

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Voicebot.ai featured my video!
April 8, 2019April 13, 2019 by Aariv Modi

Voicebot.ai featured my video!

I recently wrote a blog post about ASR, NLU, and TTS. Yesterday, Bret Kinsella featured the video I created on Voicebot.ai.

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Chess Tournament 4/6/19
April 7, 2019 by Aariv Modi

Chess Tournament 4/6/19

Yay! I went to a chess tournament at Chess4Life after a LONG time (4th time in a year), and I was delighted to earn 3rd place out of 25 participants!

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March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 by Aariv Modi

What are ASR, NLU, and TTS?

There are three core technologies that power Alexa. It’s not just Alexa, either. All voice assistants such as Siri, Google Home, etc. use these important technologies. They are Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Text To Speech (TTS).

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Alexa Skill: Wheel of Fun
March 14, 2019March 17, 2019 by Aariv Modi

Alexa Skill: Wheel of Fun

I recently finished my second skill, Meal Buddy. I was brainstorming new skill ideas when it hit me: How about a Spin the Wheel skill?

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A Nameless Friendship
January 18, 2019March 14, 2019 by Aariv Modi

A Nameless Friendship

At school, in social studies, we were learning about the settlers in the early 1600s. We had to write a story about that time period, from the point of view of a child. Here’s what I wrote. I got a decent grade on it.

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ABOUT ME

Aariv Modi is a blogger, programmer, Alexa skill developer, and AI enthusiast. He is in 9th grade at Round Rock High School and has created several Alexa skills and mobile apps. Aariv was recognized as the Voice/AI Pioneer of the Year by Project Voice in 2021 for his contributions to the conversational artificial intelligence industry. He is also the youngest AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder and AWS Certified Machine Learning professional. Aariv has contributed much of his learning with the Alexa and voice community through his blog and social media channels such as LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter. During the COVID-19 lockdown, he taught hundreds of kids how to develop Alexa skills through webinars, camps, and posts on his website. He was the youngest presenter at several international voice and AI conferences, such as Project Voice 2020, VOICE Global 2020, and VOICE Summit 2020.

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