Alexa is a cloud-based voice service from Amazon that powers devices like the Amazon Echo. It allows users to ask questions and get instant responses. Alexa skills add new capabilities and allow for personalized experiences by letting users do things like get flash briefings, order food, track fitness, and play games or videos. There are different types of skills like custom skills that can look up information, smart home skills that control devices like lights and TVs, and video skills. Developers can code skills using the Alexa skill SDK and specify request and response types. Amazon has also introduced Alexa for Business to allow skills in workplace settings across devices and locations.

1. Shedding light on the
possibilities of voice assistants
by using Amazon Alexa

2. What is Alexa?
Alexa is a cloud-based voice service from
Amazon. Alexa is the brain behind Amazon
Echo and other Alexa-enabled devices. Using
Alexa is as simple as asking a question—just
ask, and Alexa will respond instantly.

3. Supported languages

4. How it works?

6. Alexa Skills
Skills add new capabilities that allow you to create a
more personalized experience with your Amazon Echo,
Amazon Fire TV, and other Alexa-enabled devices.
Skills let you receive flash briefings, order food, request
a ride, track your fitness, and more.

8. Different Types of Skills
Custom Skills
● Look up tide information
● Order a pizza
● Request a taxi
● Engage the user in a game
Smart Home Skills
● turn on / turn off
● increase/decrease the temperature
● change the dimness or brightness
for a light
● lock a door
● change the channel on a television
Video Skills
● play Manchester by the Sea
● play funny videos

9. Custom skill

15. Let’s code

16. Adding Alexa skill SDK

20. Request types

21. Responses

24. Create a Smart Home with Amazon Alexa

34. New opportunities
30.11.2017 Amazon announced Alexa for Business from Amazon Web Services. Alexa for Business is a
service that makes it easy for organizations to use Alexa in the workplace. This opens up new opportunities for
Alexa skill developers to build skills that help organizations and employees use Alexa to get more done in less
time.

35. How It Works
Using Alexa for Business, organizations can deploy Alexa-enabled
devices across a variety of locations, including at employees' desks, in
conference rooms, and in common locations throughout the workplace.
Administrative features provide organizations with the ability to manage
skills, users, and devices across organizations. Skills or groups of skills
are deployed directly to devices provisioned within the organization.
These can be selectively enabled across rooms or types of rooms that
you define. You can also optionally manage and invite users to use these
same Alexa skills on their personal devices.

36. THANK YOU