It's a Sunday mailbag for Ben, who gets asked what are the best Alexa skills for kids right now.

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Rumors are flying that Spotify is about to announce a hardware speaker device for the car on April 24th. I cover what it means for entrepreneurs and what I'll be looking for when it launches soon.

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This brief explores how Quora could potentially be a dominant player in the coming Voice and A.I era. Does Quora have the largest high quality amount of unstructured data in the world today?

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How to create Alexa skills in 5 minutes! No coding required.

Basic steps:

1) Record something fun on your phone or laptop

2) Use a site like Pippa.io to store your audio files

3) Go to Amazon and create a free developer account

4) Click "create skill" and select "flash brief"

5) Copy and paste your Pippa feed link into your Amazon account

6) Fill out some some basic info on Amazon and click "submit"

That's it.

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I talk about my 5 entrepreneur takeaways from the SuperBot 2018 conference in San Francisco yesterday.

HINT: much of what was NOT said was the most interesting.

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I'll be hanging & live Alexa voice-briefing at the Super Bot conference in SF today:

1) Check out the conference HERE

2) Check out updates on your Alexa and on my Twitter (www.twitter.com/benjaminsmith).

And as always:

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Voice shopping is expected to hit $40b by 2022.

tems being bought today are lower value, one-time purchases:

Grocery 20%

Entertainment 19%

Electronics 17%

Clothing 8%

If you're an entrepreneur, that's catnip. Go get it now before you're competing against everybody.

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This flash briefing explores if an Alexa flash briefing is a podcast. I get a little cranky, it's my favorite pet peeve, y'all!

Happy Easter/Passover everybody!..

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This brief explores how to use Voice analytics with www.dashbot.io (my current obsession!). The guest is Arte Merritt (@artemerritt), the CEO of Dashbot.io.

Dashbot.io is the leading voice and bot analytics platform in the space. Arte was previously the founder and CEO of Motally, a leading mobile-analytics platform. He led Motally through a successful exit with Nokia acquiring it. Arte built the first version of Motally, got the initial customers, and raised Series A funding as a sole entrepreneur.

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This brief explores how to make great Alexa skills. The guest is John Gillilan (@bondad) of bondad.fm. John was one of the key people at Maker Studios (acquired by Disney). We learn more about his background and some of the killer Alexa skills he's been working on lately.

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