Essential knowledge to kick of any work with a smart speaker

1. Katarzyna Kurzyńska-Madej
@akateeerin
Alexa, say hi!
Intro to Alexa for
developers

2. Concepts & Good
Practices

3. Alexa,
What is the meaning of life?
44 is a good approximation
Alexa Skill Kit
speech input
speech output
request
response
Language Model Logic

4. Alexa,
What is the meaning of life?
44 is a good approximation
Alexa Skill Kit
speech input
speech output
request
response
Language Model Logic

5. Design first!

6. + = Fun!

7. “Alexa, tell Time Tracker
to start billing Upside
for software development”
StartTrackingIntent
“Alexa, tell Time Tracker
to stop billing”
intent
utterance
slots
what user wants
what user says
params

8. Alexa, tell Time Tracker to
Start billing Upside
Problem: not complete information

9. Dialog model
Alexa, tell Time Tracker to
Start billing Upside
What task would you
like to bill?
Software development
Ok, I started billing Upside
for software development

10. Maintaining language model
Check out ASK Toolkit!

11. Voice interfaces are flat
I’ve put my knight on field B8.
What would you like to do?
Ok, I’m wondering
where my rook was…

12. State
Machine
Is
Probably
Bad
Idea

13. What is your name?
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
Dynamic data is difficult

14. Alexa,
What is the meaning of life?
44 is a good approximation
Alexa Skill Kit
speech input
speech output
request
response
Language Model Logic

15. Alexa, open Time Tracker
Start billing Upside
for software development
Alexa, stop
Launch Request
Intent Request
Session Ended Request
Warning: Dialog
Model

16. State Management?
We’ve got session!
{
"version": "1.0",
"session": {
"new": true,
"sessionId": "amzn1.echo-api.session.[unique-value-here]",
"application": {
"applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.[unique-value-here]"
},
"attributes": {
"key": "string value"
},
"user": {
"userId": "amzn1.ask.account.[unique-value-here]",
"accessToken": "Atza|AAAAAAAA...",
"permissions": {
"consentToken": "ZZZZZZZ..."
}
}
},
"context": {
"System": {
"device": {
"deviceId": "string",
"supportedInterfaces": {
"AudioPlayer": {}
}
},
"application": {
"applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.[unique-value-here]"
},
"user": {
"userId": "amzn1.ask.account.[unique-value-here]",
"accessToken": "Atza|AAAAAAAA...",
"permissions": {
"consentToken": "ZZZZZZZ..."
}
},
"apiEndpoint": "https://api.amazonalexa.com",
"apiAccessToken": "AxThk..."
},
"AudioPlayer": {
"playerActivity": "PLAYING",
"token": "audioplayer-token",
"offsetInMilliseconds": 0
}
},
"request": {}
}

17. Testing
ASK Toolkit!

18. Deployment

19. Certification Required
Check submission checklist!

20. Follow us:
@UpsideLab
@CreateForVoice
www.upsidelab.io
we build for voice