Introduction to Amazon Alexa Skill Development

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Amazon's Alexa is the world's most popular voice activated digital assistant. More than seven million Alexa-ready devices are in use, and more than ten thousand Alexa voice applications - aka Alexa skills - have already been published. In this course, Alexa Champion Terren Peterson explains the underlying architecture of the Alexa platform and then shows you, step-by-step, how to create an Alexa skill and get it published onto …

Introduction to Amazon Alexa Skill Development

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Discover the Amazon Developer Services portal and harness it to build your first Alexa application
Explore the AWS Lambda platform that hosts the Alexa apps used by the general public
Master each phase of the entire Alexa software development lifecycle
Learn about interaction models, intent schemas, Lambda function testing, and more
Understand the basics of creating a voice user interface (VUI)

Terren Peterson is a 2016 Alexa Champion, this is a designation Amazon awards each year to just a handful of Alexa developers worldwide. He's created many Alexa skills, including "Hurricane Center", a skill providing tropical storm information based on NOAA data. An experienced technologist with multiple AWS certifications, Terren is the head of Platform Engineering for the Retail and Direct Bank Business at Capital One, where he leads the bank's transition to cloud technologies.

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Introduction

Welcome To The Course 00:01:38

About The Author 00:00:53

Alexa Architecture Overview

Amazon Hardware Review 00:02:03

Alexa Platform Overview 00:02:48

What Is A Skill? 00:04:08

Interaction Model Overview 00:03:40

Request Response Model Overview 00:05:00

How To Write Your First Alexa App

Creating An Amazon Developer Account 00:01:52

Choosing A Skill Name 00:03:27

Creating The Intent Schema 00:00:54

Identifying Sample Utterances 00:03:05

Authoring Publishing Information 00:04:42

Creating An Amazon Web Services Account 00:02:06

Authoring Your First Lambda Function 00:05:13

Testing Your Application

Establishing Test Conditions 00:00:55

Using The Developer Console To Unit Test 00:03:53

How To Unit Test A Lambda Function 00:02:18

Using An Actual Device To Test With Your Voice 00:01:01

How To Check For Errors Within Lambda 00:01:30

Deploying Your Application

Skill Certification Process 00:01:04

How To Submit Your Skill For Approval 00:02:04

Receiving User Feedback 00:02:09

Tracking Skill Usage 00:02:14

Conclusion

Wrap Up And Thank You 00:01:02

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