Creating Intents and Building the Model
Explore how to define custom intents with utterances and use built-in Alexa intents required for certification. Understand how to build the interaction model to train Alexa for accurate voice command recognition in your skill.
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Intents provided by the template
After the invocation name, the next important component of the interaction model is creating the intents.
We selected a template when we started creating our Skill. That template has essentially provided us with one custom intent, a few built-in Amazon intents, and some pre-filled boilerplate code to get started.
In the previous module, we learned that intent represents an action that fulfills a user’s spoken request. This code already has some intents filled in. The first is the HelloWorldIntent which is a custom intent and also has some utterances already.
When we create a new custom intent, we need to provide an ...