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- 1. Denver Alexa Meetup LaunchEvent Bob Stolzberg Andy Hahn Hosted by Getting Started With Alexa Skills https://www.madskills.io/2018/09/03/alexa-getting-started/
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- 5. New Voice Careers •Project Manager – scope, schedule • Voice UX Designer – field research, personas, scenarios, conversation • Graphic Designer – branding, multimodal • Developer – code, test, deploy, technical limitations
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- 7. Where is Alexa? Alexain US, UK, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, India, Mexico, and more...
- 8. Don’t Miss: AlexaDeveloper Rewards https://alexa.design/rewards
- 9. Don’t Miss: AWSPromotional Credits https://alexa.design/awscredits
- 10. alexa.design/guide Amazon Alexa VoiceDesign Guide @AlexaDevs Amazon Alexa Developers @AlexaDevs
- 11. SMAPI & ASKCLI https://alexa.design/cli https://alexa.design/smapi
- 12. alexa.design/forums alexa.design/contactus alexa.design/officehours alexaslack.com twitch.tv/amazonalexa Get Support &Join the Community @AlexaDevs Amazon Alexa Developers @AlexaDevs
- 13. Public ● Custom ● Flashbriefing ● Smart Home ● Video Types of Skills Alexa For Business ● Smart Conference Room ● Private Custom
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- 15. Create an Amazon AlexaSkill: Overview
- 16. Skill Development Lifecycle 3 VOICEUX DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 1 CERTIFICATION & DEPLOYMENT 2 Do: • Design the Voice Experience • Use experts in VUI design • Use frameworks for quality and speed of development • Allow extra time for changes during certification
- 17. Creating an AlexaSkill </> Frontend Definition Backend Code developer.amazon.com • Skill store information • Interaction model (VUI) • Configuration (Lambda, REST) • Testing • Publishing aws.amazon.com (or other) • Lambda (Node.js, Python, Java, C#) • S3 • DynamoDB
- 18. Utterances, Intents &Code </> Frontend Definition Backend Code Utterances • Tell me a joke • Give me a joke • Get a joke • Another joke • Something funny • Some humor JokeIntent
- 19. It’s a VoiceBrowser Web Server URL HTML Web Browser API Request Response Audio Stream Audio Response Custom Skill Request Response Display Card ASR – Automatic Speech Recognition NLU – Natural Language Understanding TTS – Text to Speech
- 20. Just JSON Custom AlexaSkill Alexa Service JSON Request JSON Response AWS Lambda or REST endpoint
- 21. 4 Main Requests LaunchRequest– skill launched in conversation mode IntentRequest – skill launched in single shot or utterance used in conversation mode CanFulfillIntentRequest - optional first party invocation SessionEndedRequest – user ends the session
- 22. One Shot Request Response (tell) USER:Alexa, ask _____________ to __________________________ ALEXA: {response} (session ends) Alexa & Siri walk into a bar… speech wake launch invocation name utteranceconnect Alexa, ask Joke Maker to tell me a joke
- 23. Conversational / Multi-turn Request Response(ask) Alexa & Siri walk into a bar… I can tell you about things like puns and riddles. What would you like to do? speech prompt For a list of things I can do, say help. reprompt hint USER: Alexa, start _____________ ALEXA: Welcome to the _____ skill. I can do things like ______ and _______. What would you like to do? USER: {command/question} ALEXA: {response} … USER: Goodbye ALEXA: Come back soon. See ya later. (session ends) wake launch invocation name Alexa, start Joke Maker utterance tell me a joke utterance another joke
- 24. Wake & LaunchWords Wake Words • Alexa • Amazon • Echo • Computer Launch Word Connectors ask to, about, for, if, whether tell to, that talk to, launch, start, resume, run, load, begin and open for, and use and, to search for
- 25. ASK CLI Need: • Node.js– version 8.10 • developer.amazon.com • aws.amazon.com • Code editor Do: • npm install –g ask-cli • ask init • ask new • ask deploy Setup an Alexa Development Environment https://www.madskills.io/2018/09/02/alexa-development-environment/
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