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Understand the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit

  The Alexa Gadgets Toolkit enables you to build your own   Alexa Gadget . An Alexa Gadget is an Alexa-connected accessory that interacts with compatible Amazon Echo devices over Bluetooth. By using the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit, you can: Access your gadget from an  Alexa skill  – Your skill can trigger gadget behaviors, and act on information it receives from your gadget. To support this, you define a  Custom Interface  and then use the  Custom Interface Controller  to access the information from an Alexa skill. Trigger gadget behaviors in reaction to Alexa's native capabilities  – Outside of a skill, your gadget can receive the following information from the Echo device that it is connected to: Speechmark data  – Enables your gadget to synchronize to Alexa's text-to-speech in real time. This information is provided through the  SpeechData  interface. Notifications  – Enables the gadget to inform users that new content is ava...