Alexa Skills 101: Building voice apps for Alexa

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This course includes

1 Project

6 Playgrounds

This course includes

1 Project

6 Playgrounds

Course Overview

Voice is the next big revolution in tech. As conversational AI finds new and interesting use cases, it's time for developers to make use of the new opportunities to re-use their existing skills to build the next generation of apps powered by voice. This course will help you learn how to start developing apps for Alexa using the Alexa Skills Kit. You will be building real and interesting projects that will help you understand the fundamentals. Along the way, you will learn all the skills you need to launch...Show More

What You'll Learn

Understand what the whole Conversational AI revolution is all about

Learn the best practices for developing apps for voice

Get a solid understanding of how to develop Alexa skills through three hands on projects!

Use techniques you learn from this course in your own projects!

Most importantly, have a lot of fun!

What You'll Learn

Understand what the whole Conversational AI revolution is all about

Course Content

Hello Alexa: An Introduction to the World of Voice

Conversational AI 101

Let's Meet Alexa

Alexa Skills and Alexa Skills Kit: An Introduction

Alexa, How Do You Work?Intro to Utterances, Intents, and Slots Designing for Voice 101 Quiz

Setting You Up For Success

Setting up an Amazon Developer Account Before You Get Started

Your First Skill

Introducing "Hero Trivia": Your First Alexa Skill Creating Your First Skill Understanding the Developer Console Creating an Invocation Name Creating Intents and Building the Model Understanding the Boilerplate Code Testing the Template Alexa Skill Hero Trivia: Add Intent and Utterances Hero Trivia: Coding LaunchRequestHandler Hero Trivia: Coding GetTriviaIntentHandler Hero Trivia: Coding HelpIntentHandler Hero Trivia: Final Code Hero Trivia: Testing Submission and Certification Quiz

Advanced Concepts

Session and Session Attributes A Quick Introduction to ASK CLI

Building a Game: Voice Clues

Building a Game: Voice Clues Project Setup and Invocation Name Making the VUI Model in the Developer Console Defining Slots and Slot Types Define AnswerIntent Interaction Model JSON

Voice Clues: Coding with ASK CLI

Project

Next Steps

3 Lessons

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Emma Bostian 🐞

@EmmaBostian

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