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-# Playing mp3 files in an Alexa-Hosted skill
-Hey this is Steve at Dabble Lab and in this tutorial, we'll look at playing an mp3 file from an Alexa-Hosted skill's S3 bucket.
-
-## Overview
+# Alexa Hosted S3 Audio Skill Example
 
 When you create an [Alexa-Hosted](https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/hosted-skills/build-a-skill-end-to-end-using-an-alexa-hosted-skill.html) skill, an Amazon S3 bucket is also created for hosting media files. But the files you store in that bucket are not accessible publicly. So, you can't just use the default file URL in your skill, you need a signed URL.
 
-## Steps
-
-To follow-along, you can [click this link to deploy this skill template](https://deploy.dabble.dev/deploy/v2/yojf15ci7h) to your Alexa console. Or, you can copy and past the code from the following steps.
-
-### Step 1 - Create and Alexa-Hosted skill
- - Login to [developer.amazon.com/alexa/console](https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console)
- - Create a new Alexa-Hosted skill for Node.js using the 'Hello World' template
-
-### Step 2 - Upload an mp3 file to S3
- - From the `code` tab open S3
- - Upload an mp3 file into the Media folder 
- > NOTE: Make sure the file is formatted correctly. Not all .mp3 files will play in an Alexa skill. Check out the [Alexa Audio Converter](https://www.jovo.tech/audio-converter) from Jovo.Tech for easily converting audio files to work with your skills.
+This is an Alexa skill template that provides a starting point for creating a skill that uses the [Alexa-Hosted S3 Audio Utility](https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/hosted-skills/build-a-skill-end-to-end-using-an-alexa-hosted-skill.html) to quickly store a properly formatted audio file in the hosted s3 media bucket and play it in the skill.
 
-### Step 3 - Get the S3 Pre-Signed URL to play the file
+### Using this skill template
 
-When you create an Alexa-Hosted skill in the Alexa Developer Console using the "Hello World" template, the code will include a file named [util.js](./lambda/util.js). The `util.js` file can be used to get a signed url for .mp3 file saved in the S3 `./Media` folder. So start by requiring `util.js` by adding the following to the top of `index.js`.
+1. If you don't have one already, create an [Amazon Developer account](https://developer.amazon.com/).
 
-```javascript
-const util = require('./util.js');
-```
+2. Click the button below to deploy the code for this skill into your Alexa developer account.
 
-Now we can use the `getS3PreSignedUrl` method in `util` to get a signed URL that will let Alexa play the .mp3 file. We'll do that using an SSML tag in the speech output.  
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-> NOTE: The URI that get generated by the `util.js` needs to be formatted a bit or you'll get an error. Specifically, you need to replace instances of `&` in the URL with `&`. Note the `.replace(/&/g,'&')` in the example below.
+3. In the Alexa developer console, set the skill's invocation name.
 
-```javascript
-const audioUrl = Util.getS3PreSignedUrl("Media/your-audio-file.mp3").replace(/&/g,'&');
-return handlerInput.responseBuilder
-        .speak(`hello world with audio <audio src="${audioUrl}"/>`)
-        .getResponse();
-```
+4. Test the skill with an Alexa device that can play video.
 
-## Testing
+   > **NOTE:** You can test the skill in devices like: Echo Dot, Echo Show, Fire TV, some Fire tablets, and other devices.
 
-At this point you should be able to deploy the changes to your Alexa-Hosted skill and hear the audio file play when the skill lanuches. 
+5. Modify the skill code to use your own stream URL.