Christmas Carols

Song Menu
Main Menu
Echo Show Song Playing view
Echo Spot song view
Echo Spot song version selection

Inspiration

When we were kids we used to sing a lot! And we loved karaoke. We found out that there are no "cool" karaoke songs available on Alexa so we decided to change that.

What it does

It is probably first Christmas Carols Karaoke on Alexa. It really works! (organically tested). There are 10 Christmas Carols so far, each in two versions:

original (with vocals)
karaoke (instrumental)

If your device has a screen you can choose to play Karaoke version!

The most beautiful Christmas Carols are a great opportunity to sing along with family. Create a chorus, sing in two voices, at home, with friends or neighbours.

List of songs:

Jingle Bells
We Wish you a Merry Christmas
Silent Night
The 12 Days of Christmas
O Christmas Tree
Deck The Halls
First Noel
Joy To The World
O Holy Night
Angels we have heard on High

How we built it

We have prerecorded all songs as video to allow highlighting the text and syncing it with music. Our talented graphics designer prepared beautiful layout and logos.

The rest was simple - couple weeks of coding and the skill gained beautiful visuals.

Challenges we ran into

Very often the view in the simulator was different to the one on actual devices (Show and Spot) - we had to try and fail multiple times to make the skill look good.