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Test on an Echo device

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Test on an Echo device

- [Instructor] Now it's time for a really exciting video. We're going to test out our skill on an actual Echo device. So if you have an Echo device this is the opportunity for you to test your skill out. There is one caveat, that you have to set up your Echo device with the same Amazon Developer account that you used to login to the Amazon Developer portal to build your Alexa skill. That way whenever you create a skill and it's in development mode, you're able to use your device to test your skill. The other point that I wanted to make was that there is an Alexa website, https://alexa.amazon.com that you could fire up in a browser and login with your Amazon Developer account. And this is the same user interface as the Alexa app on your mobile device. Essentially the same information can be accessed and from here if you click on the Skills link on the left, you'll also see a list of skills that you can search…

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