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Introduction to Alexa Skill Building
- 1. Amazon Alexa or how to build Voice Interfaces in Minutes Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering
- 2. Alexa is Amazons Digital Assitant, mainly living in it‘s Echo devices https://www.tvstreamingbox.de/unterschiede-zwischen-amazon-echo-und-echo-dot/
- 3. Alexa, starte Carsharing und finde mir ein Auto (sorry, my Alexa understands only German)
- 4. What is Alexa and an Alexa Skill? Your Skill Alexa, frage Hausbar nach Drink Willkommen bei deiner Hausbar.... Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 5. Skills are simple HTTP Services ... implements a simple HTTP-API ... verify each request (SSL Client & Server Authentication) ... accepts INTENT requests with SLOTS ... outputs SSML formated text, which is read by Echo
- 6. Or we can use an AWS Lambda ... implements a simple HTTP-API ... verify each requests (SSL Client & Server Authentication) ... accepts INTENT requests with SLOTS ... outputs SSML formated text, which is read by Echo Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 7. Wanna build your own? You need: An API Coding Skills Language Skills aka Voice UX Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 8. Language Interaction with Alexa • A skill is started with a verb & INVOCATION WORD Alexa, starte Carsharing Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 9. Language Interaction with Alexa • A skill is started with a verb & INVOCATION WORD Alexa, starte Carsharing • After the INVOCATION, the user can add a direct command (called an INTENT) Alexa, starte Carsharing und finde ein Auto Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 10. A complete conversation Alexa, starte Carsharing Willkommen, du kannst..... Launch Intent, Session is opened Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 11. A complete conversation Alexa, starte Carsharing Willkommen, du kannst..... Find Autos mit Car2Go in meiner Nähe bitte Ich habe ein Car2go in der XYZ gefunden. Möchstest du das Auto reservieren? Launch Intent, Session is opened ReserverCarWithCompany Intent SlotValue = car2go Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 12. A complete conversation Alexa, starte Carsharing Willkommen, du kannst..... Find Autos mit Car2Go in meiner Nähe bitte Ich habe ein Car2go in der XYZ gefunden. Möchstest du das Auto reservieren? Ja, bitte. Ich hab das Auto für dich reserviert. Du kannst es mit der car2go App öffnen. Bis demnächst Launch Intent, Session is opened ReserverCarWithCompany Intent SlotValue = car2go Confirm Reservation Intent Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 13. Enough talk, let‘s build! Sample Skill to ask for drink recommondations. Loads a list of drinks and gives you the recipes for a random or known drink if you ask nicely Alexa, frage Haus Bar nach einem passenden Drink Ich hätte einen White Russian im Angebot. Dazu bitte Milch, Kahlua und Vodka im Shaker zu gleichen Teilen zubereiten und abseien. Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 14. Steps 1. Create Skill (developer.amazon.com) 2. Add Intent Model (use the beta Interface) 3. Add Utterances (use the beta Interface) 4. Create Lambda from Template (aws.amazon.com) 5. Add new Code 6. Connect the two Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 15. Resources • https://jordankasper.com/building-an-amazon-alexa-skill-with-node- js • Alexa Cookbook: https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook • ASK Documentation: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills- kit/getting-started-guide • Sample Skill: https://github.com/ChallTell/AlexaHausbarDemo Patrick Blitz, CTO | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering – Chatbots & Voice Assistants Grand Event
- 16. So long, and thanks for all the … fish … beer … skills Patrick Blitz | ChallTell Solutions GmbH | @LordThundering | www.challtell.de
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to the talk. Patrick Blitz, CTO of Challtell Today, I will introduce Alexa and what we can do with it. Will not focus on UX (Voice UI), but rather trying to show the base operating principles
- Alexa really doesn‘t do much – it‘s an interface to do stuff with. It can do great things like playing music (it‘s a speaker) but also controlling your home, telling decent chuck norris jokes – and whatever you teach it to do How many of you have had Siri or google Now (on cellphones) understand them nearly always (i.e. you feel you can use it reliably?) With the formfactor (Echo/echo dot and echo whatever), Alexa just works a lot better.
- Alexa takes care of the heavy lifting by processing language into something we can work with. Later, defining the Skill, we give it spoke language queris that will be sued to train the AI to recongize user input – and map what the user says into “intent“ requests that our skill can easily understand – basically, predefined input. This makes programming voice assistants really easy.
- Skills don‘t do anything with spoken language – or audio files unless you want to do that
- Caveat: Invocation Word should be two words (so the above is wrong!)
- Important: