The document discusses enabling voice experiences with Alexa. It provides a brief history of user interfaces from GUIs to voice-first interfaces. Voice represents the next major disruption in computing as conversation is the most natural way for users to engage with products. The Alexa skills kit allows developers to create voice experiences for Alexa enabled devices and provides tools for building skills with natural language processing. The document outlines best practices for designing high quality Alexa skills that evolve over time based on user feedback.
Echo is a new device from Amazon designed around your voice. It's always on—just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Tucked under Echo's light ring is an array of seven microphones. When Echo detects the wake word, it lights up and streams audio to the cloud, where it leverages the power of Amazon Web Services to recognize and respond to your request. With the release of the Alexa AppKit you can now build your own apps and experiences for Amazon Echo. This session will cover everything you need to know starting off with how to use the Alexa AppKit, how to build your first voice app, and end with the app submission process
David Isbitski - Enabling new voice experiences with Amazon Alexa and AWS LambdaWithTheBest
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo and Amazon Fire TV, provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more.
We will also be taking a quick look at how the healthcare industry is integrating with the Alexa Skills Kit for new use cases. With the Alexa Skills Kit, you can easily build and add your own skills to Alexa. Customers can then access these new skills simply by asking Alexa a question or making a command.
This workshop will be a walkthrough of the latest Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and will teach you how to build your own skills for Alexa enabled devices, like the Amazon Echo. You will get hands on experience with an Amazon Echo device, the Alexa Skills Kit and AWS Lambda. You will also learn how to monitor your new skill using AWS CloudWatch and how to test your skill using both the Alexa Service Simulator, AWS Lambda Unit Tests and an Amazon Echo device.
David Isbitski
Your First Amazon Alexa Skill - Presented at Desert Code Camp 2016.1
Learn enough to create, test, and deploy your first Amazon Alexa Skill.
http://oct2016.desertcodecamp.com/session/1210
http://codeaweso.me/presentations/your-first-amazon-alexa-skill/
Introduction to building alexa skills and putting your amazon echo to workAbe Diaz
So you bough a brand new Echo/Tap/Dot device... now what? Well if you want to start hacking away and building your own skills this session is for you. We will cover the basic building blocks to get you up and running with your very own first custom skill.
Enabling New Voice Experiences with Amazon Alexa and AWS LambdaAmazon Web Services
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo device family and Amazon Fire TV, provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way by using voice. Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more. With the Alexa Skills Kit, you can easily build and add your own skills to Alexa. Customers can then access these new skills simply by asking Alexa a question or making a command. This workshop will be a walkthrough of the latest Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and will teach you how to build your own skills for Alexa enabled devices, like the Amazon Echo. You will get demonstration of an Amazon Echo device, the Alexa Skills Kit and AWS Lambda, with live coding session. You will also learn how test your Lambda function on your local machine before to deploy to the cloud.
Echo is a new device from Amazon designed around your voice. It's always on—just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Tucked under Echo's light ring is an array of seven microphones. When Echo detects the wake word, it lights up and streams audio to the cloud, where it leverages the power of Amazon Web Services to recognize and respond to your request. With the release of the Alexa AppKit you can now build your own apps and experiences for Amazon Echo. This session will cover everything you need to know starting off with how to use the Alexa AppKit, how to build your first voice app, and end with the app submission process
David Isbitski - Enabling new voice experiences with Amazon Alexa and AWS LambdaWithTheBest
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo and Amazon Fire TV, provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more.
We will also be taking a quick look at how the healthcare industry is integrating with the Alexa Skills Kit for new use cases. With the Alexa Skills Kit, you can easily build and add your own skills to Alexa. Customers can then access these new skills simply by asking Alexa a question or making a command.
This workshop will be a walkthrough of the latest Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and will teach you how to build your own skills for Alexa enabled devices, like the Amazon Echo. You will get hands on experience with an Amazon Echo device, the Alexa Skills Kit and AWS Lambda. You will also learn how to monitor your new skill using AWS CloudWatch and how to test your skill using both the Alexa Service Simulator, AWS Lambda Unit Tests and an Amazon Echo device.
David Isbitski
Your First Amazon Alexa Skill - Presented at Desert Code Camp 2016.1
Learn enough to create, test, and deploy your first Amazon Alexa Skill.
http://oct2016.desertcodecamp.com/session/1210
http://codeaweso.me/presentations/your-first-amazon-alexa-skill/
Introduction to building alexa skills and putting your amazon echo to workAbe Diaz
So you bough a brand new Echo/Tap/Dot device... now what? Well if you want to start hacking away and building your own skills this session is for you. We will cover the basic building blocks to get you up and running with your very own first custom skill.
Enabling New Voice Experiences with Amazon Alexa and AWS LambdaAmazon Web Services
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo device family and Amazon Fire TV, provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way by using voice. Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more. With the Alexa Skills Kit, you can easily build and add your own skills to Alexa. Customers can then access these new skills simply by asking Alexa a question or making a command. This workshop will be a walkthrough of the latest Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and will teach you how to build your own skills for Alexa enabled devices, like the Amazon Echo. You will get demonstration of an Amazon Echo device, the Alexa Skills Kit and AWS Lambda, with live coding session. You will also learn how test your Lambda function on your local machine before to deploy to the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Workshop: Build an Alexa-Enabled Product with Raspberry P...Amazon Web Services
Fascinated by Alexa, and want to build your own device with Alexa built in? This workshop will walk you through to how to build your first Alexa-powered device step by step, using a Raspberry Pi. No experience with Raspberry Pi or Alexa Voice Service is required. We will provide you with the hardware and the software required to build this project, and at the end of the workshop, you will be able to walk out with a working prototype of Alexa on a Pi.
Please bring a WiFi capable laptop.
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap and Amazon Fire TV provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more. Customers can then access these new skills simply by asking Alexa a question or making a command. This session will be a walkthrough of the latest Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and will teach you how to build your own skills for Alexa enabled devices. You will also learn how to monitor your new skill using AWS CloudWatch and how to test your skill using AWS Lambda Unit Tests and the Alexa Voice and Service Simulators.
AWS re:Invent 2016: How Capital One Built a Voice-Based Banking Skill for Ama...Amazon Web Services
As we add thousands of skills to Alexa, our developers have uncovered some basic and more complex tips for building better skills. Whether you are new to Alexa skill development or if you have created skills that are live today, this session helps you understand how to create better voice experiences. Last year, Capital One joined Alexa on stage at re:Invent to talk about their experience building an Alexa skill. Hear from them one year later to learn from the challenges that they had to overcome and the results they are seeing from their skill. In this session, you will learn the importance of flexible invocations, better VUI design, how OAuth and account linking can add value to your skill, and about Capital One's experience building an Alexa skill.
Talk performed on Code Europe Warsaw 2017.
Will 2017 be a year of Voice Assistants? Let's ask Alexa from Amazon to hear what she thinks about that! I will show you how to teach Alexa new skills using AWS Lambda and AWS AI Stack, but also useful Node.js toolset. PS: Alexa is a bit shy, so please don't make a noise during the presentation!
Technologie:
IoT
Artificial intelligence
Javascript
The presentation gives a quick overview of Amazon Alexa, the devices and how to write your first custom skill. The presentation contains sample code on how to write an Alexa skill that provides a random quote or a quote of a specific person. The code sample makes use of the Amazon Node.js alexa-sdk.
AWS re:Invent 2016: State of the Union: Amazon Alexa and Recent Advances in C...Amazon Web Services
The way humans interact with machines is at a turning point, and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation. Learn how Amazon is using machine learning and cloud computing to fuel innovation in AI, making Amazon Alexa smarter every day. Alexa VP and Head Scientist Rohit Prasad presents the state of the union Alexa and Recent Advances in Conversational AIn for Alexa. He addresses Alexa's advances in spoken language understanding and machine learning, and shares Amazon's thoughts about building the next generation of user experiences.
Multi-Factor Auth in Alexa Skills - Faisal ValliOscar Merry
Faisal gave an excellent talk at the 5th London Alexa Devs meetup on implementing Multi-Factor Authentication in Alexa Skills using the Nexmo API.
https://www.meetup.com/London-Alexa-Devs/
Home automation has been around for a while, but in the last few years intelligent voice controlled devices have made their appearance on the marketplace. A popular one is Amazon Alexa. Common uses for your assistent at home are controlling lights and music, but let’s start thinking outside the box! In this talk we will explore fun and unusual voice controlled applications for in your home. We will look at how the Alexa Skills kit works and how we can create our own Alexa applications.
Building voice enabled Apps with Alexa voice service and Amazon Lex. Amazon Web Services
Have you heard about Alexa? Chances are that you have.
But Amazon Echo which powers Alexa is not yet available in India.
How can I now introduce voice enabled applications to my customers?
Well, there are two ways. Use the Alexa voice service. Use the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to add intelligent voice control to any connected product that has a microphone and speaker.
Or you could use Lex and Polly for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions.
This track will guide you to create real life applications using Lex to create a new
Speaker:
Shailesh Albuquerque
Manager-Solutions Archtecture, Amazon India
Creating IoT Solutions with Serverless Architecture & AlexaAmazon Web Services
Learn how to develop voice-based serverless back ends for Alexa Voice Service (AVS) and Alexa devices using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), which allows you to add new voice-based interactions to Alexa. We’ll code a new skill, implemented by a serverless backend leveraging AWS services such as AWS Lambda.
AWS re:Invent 2016: From VUI to QA: Building a Voice-Based Adventure Game for...Amazon Web Services
Hitting the submit button to publish your skill is similar to sending your child to their first day of school. You want it to be set up for a successful launch day and for many days thereafter. Learn how to set your skill up for success from Andy Huntwork, Alexa Principal Engineer and one of the creators of the popular Alexa skill "The Magic Door." You will learn the most common reasons why skills fail and also some of the more unique use cases. The purpose of this session is to help you build better skills by knowing what to look out for and what you can test for before submitting. In this session, you will learn what most developers do wrong, how to successfully test and QA your skill, how to set your skill up for successful certification, and the process of how a skill gets certified.
Building a great experience is just step one. In this workshop, we build a custom Alexa skill and then show you how to build a backend that can handle the rush of customers when they come.
Voice is the most natural way for humans to communicate and will be the ubiquitous way to communicate with computer systems in the 21st century. Learn how you can voice enable your products or services by developing Voice-based Applications (aka Skills) for Amazon Alexa. After a quick state of the union, this talk will teach you to create a voice based user experience and to deploy it to Amazon Alexa. We will explain the main concepts of a voice application and we will show you how to create a Skill from scratch.
Level : 200 - coding experience required.
Find out how the Amazon Alexa voice assistant works. We’ll also explore how you can make your own Alexa Skill. No coding experience is required and this session is suitable for both beginners and developers.
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo and Amazon Fire TV, provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. Application developers are also able to create custom applications and skills that can be published in the Alexa App Store for consumers to use. Some examples of these today include Uber, Spotify and Domino’s Pizza.This session will advise on why voice is a relevant additional user engagement model for businesses, what a good VUI (Voice User Interface) sounds like, and also demonstrate how simple it is to build custom Alexa applications by utilising the hosted Alexa Voice service and the AWS cloud.
Alexa is the speech and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo. Today you can use Alexa to listen to music, play games, check traffic and weather, control your household devices such as Philips Hue and Belkin WeMo, and lots more. Alexa offers a full-featured set of APIs and SDKs that you can use to teach her new skills and add her into devices and applications of your own. In this talk, intended for software and hardware developers interested in voice control, home automation, and personal assistant technology, we will walk through the development of a new Alexa skill and incorporate it into a consumer-facing device.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Workshop: Build an Alexa-Enabled Product with Raspberry P...Amazon Web Services
Fascinated by Alexa, and want to build your own device with Alexa built in? This workshop will walk you through to how to build your first Alexa-powered device step by step, using a Raspberry Pi. No experience with Raspberry Pi or Alexa Voice Service is required. We will provide you with the hardware and the software required to build this project, and at the end of the workshop, you will be able to walk out with a working prototype of Alexa on a Pi.
Please bring a WiFi capable laptop.
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap and Amazon Fire TV provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more. Customers can then access these new skills simply by asking Alexa a question or making a command. This session will be a walkthrough of the latest Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and will teach you how to build your own skills for Alexa enabled devices. You will also learn how to monitor your new skill using AWS CloudWatch and how to test your skill using AWS Lambda Unit Tests and the Alexa Voice and Service Simulators.
AWS re:Invent 2016: How Capital One Built a Voice-Based Banking Skill for Ama...Amazon Web Services
As we add thousands of skills to Alexa, our developers have uncovered some basic and more complex tips for building better skills. Whether you are new to Alexa skill development or if you have created skills that are live today, this session helps you understand how to create better voice experiences. Last year, Capital One joined Alexa on stage at re:Invent to talk about their experience building an Alexa skill. Hear from them one year later to learn from the challenges that they had to overcome and the results they are seeing from their skill. In this session, you will learn the importance of flexible invocations, better VUI design, how OAuth and account linking can add value to your skill, and about Capital One's experience building an Alexa skill.
Talk performed on Code Europe Warsaw 2017.
Will 2017 be a year of Voice Assistants? Let's ask Alexa from Amazon to hear what she thinks about that! I will show you how to teach Alexa new skills using AWS Lambda and AWS AI Stack, but also useful Node.js toolset. PS: Alexa is a bit shy, so please don't make a noise during the presentation!
Technologie:
IoT
Artificial intelligence
Javascript
The presentation gives a quick overview of Amazon Alexa, the devices and how to write your first custom skill. The presentation contains sample code on how to write an Alexa skill that provides a random quote or a quote of a specific person. The code sample makes use of the Amazon Node.js alexa-sdk.
AWS re:Invent 2016: State of the Union: Amazon Alexa and Recent Advances in C...Amazon Web Services
The way humans interact with machines is at a turning point, and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation. Learn how Amazon is using machine learning and cloud computing to fuel innovation in AI, making Amazon Alexa smarter every day. Alexa VP and Head Scientist Rohit Prasad presents the state of the union Alexa and Recent Advances in Conversational AIn for Alexa. He addresses Alexa's advances in spoken language understanding and machine learning, and shares Amazon's thoughts about building the next generation of user experiences.
Multi-Factor Auth in Alexa Skills - Faisal ValliOscar Merry
Faisal gave an excellent talk at the 5th London Alexa Devs meetup on implementing Multi-Factor Authentication in Alexa Skills using the Nexmo API.
https://www.meetup.com/London-Alexa-Devs/
Home automation has been around for a while, but in the last few years intelligent voice controlled devices have made their appearance on the marketplace. A popular one is Amazon Alexa. Common uses for your assistent at home are controlling lights and music, but let’s start thinking outside the box! In this talk we will explore fun and unusual voice controlled applications for in your home. We will look at how the Alexa Skills kit works and how we can create our own Alexa applications.
Building voice enabled Apps with Alexa voice service and Amazon Lex. Amazon Web Services
Have you heard about Alexa? Chances are that you have.
But Amazon Echo which powers Alexa is not yet available in India.
How can I now introduce voice enabled applications to my customers?
Well, there are two ways. Use the Alexa voice service. Use the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to add intelligent voice control to any connected product that has a microphone and speaker.
Or you could use Lex and Polly for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions.
This track will guide you to create real life applications using Lex to create a new
Speaker:
Shailesh Albuquerque
Manager-Solutions Archtecture, Amazon India
Creating IoT Solutions with Serverless Architecture & AlexaAmazon Web Services
Learn how to develop voice-based serverless back ends for Alexa Voice Service (AVS) and Alexa devices using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), which allows you to add new voice-based interactions to Alexa. We’ll code a new skill, implemented by a serverless backend leveraging AWS services such as AWS Lambda.
AWS re:Invent 2016: From VUI to QA: Building a Voice-Based Adventure Game for...Amazon Web Services
Hitting the submit button to publish your skill is similar to sending your child to their first day of school. You want it to be set up for a successful launch day and for many days thereafter. Learn how to set your skill up for success from Andy Huntwork, Alexa Principal Engineer and one of the creators of the popular Alexa skill "The Magic Door." You will learn the most common reasons why skills fail and also some of the more unique use cases. The purpose of this session is to help you build better skills by knowing what to look out for and what you can test for before submitting. In this session, you will learn what most developers do wrong, how to successfully test and QA your skill, how to set your skill up for successful certification, and the process of how a skill gets certified.
Building a great experience is just step one. In this workshop, we build a custom Alexa skill and then show you how to build a backend that can handle the rush of customers when they come.
Voice is the most natural way for humans to communicate and will be the ubiquitous way to communicate with computer systems in the 21st century. Learn how you can voice enable your products or services by developing Voice-based Applications (aka Skills) for Amazon Alexa. After a quick state of the union, this talk will teach you to create a voice based user experience and to deploy it to Amazon Alexa. We will explain the main concepts of a voice application and we will show you how to create a Skill from scratch.
Level : 200 - coding experience required.
Find out how the Amazon Alexa voice assistant works. We’ll also explore how you can make your own Alexa Skill. No coding experience is required and this session is suitable for both beginners and developers.
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo and Amazon Fire TV, provides a set of built-in abilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. Application developers are also able to create custom applications and skills that can be published in the Alexa App Store for consumers to use. Some examples of these today include Uber, Spotify and Domino’s Pizza.This session will advise on why voice is a relevant additional user engagement model for businesses, what a good VUI (Voice User Interface) sounds like, and also demonstrate how simple it is to build custom Alexa applications by utilising the hosted Alexa Voice service and the AWS cloud.
Alexa is the speech and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo. Today you can use Alexa to listen to music, play games, check traffic and weather, control your household devices such as Philips Hue and Belkin WeMo, and lots more. Alexa offers a full-featured set of APIs and SDKs that you can use to teach her new skills and add her into devices and applications of your own. In this talk, intended for software and hardware developers interested in voice control, home automation, and personal assistant technology, we will walk through the development of a new Alexa skill and incorporate it into a consumer-facing device.
Alexa is the speech processing and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo. Speech-based user interfaces represent one of the next major disruptions in computing and the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) provides you with an opportunity to take advantage of this new form of interaction. In this session, we’ll walk through the recently-released AVS API by building a voice-enabled application and then go behind the scenes with Alexa, diving into the architecture and unique technical challenges faced during development.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Alexa in the Enterprise: How JPL Leverages Alexa to Furth...Amazon Web Services
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs and creates some of the most advanced space robotics ever imagined. JPL IT is now innovating to help streamline how JPLers will work in the future in order to design, build, operate, and support these spacecraft. They hope to dramatically improve JPLers' workflows and make their work easier for them by enabling simple voice conversations with the room and the equipment across the entire enterprise.
What could this look like? Imagine just talking with the conference room to configure it. What if you could kick off advanced queries across AWS services and kick off AWS Kinesis tasks by simply speaking the commands? What if the laboratory could speak to you and warn you about anomalies or notify you of trends across your AWS infrastructure? What if you could control rovers by having a conversation with them and ask them questions? In this session, JPL will demonstrate how they leveraged AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and CloudWatch in their prototypes of these use cases and more. They will also discuss some of the technical challenges they are overcoming, including how to deploy and manage consumer devices such as the Amazon Echo across the enterprise, and give lessons learned. Join them as they use Alexa to query JPL databases, control conference room equipment and lights, and even drive a rover on stage, all with nothing but the power of voice!
Traditional data warehouses become expensive and slow down as the volume of your data grows. Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it easy to analyze all of your data using existing business intelligence tools for 1/10th the traditional cost. This session will provide an introduction to Amazon Redshift and cover the essentials you need to deploy your data warehouse in the cloud so that you can achieve faster analytics and save costs.
Die Zukunft des E-Commerce: Bestellen per SprachbefehlMySign AG
«Alexa, kaufe 5 Liter Milch.» Mit einer solchen Aussage werden wir in Zukunft unsere Einkäufe erledigen. Amazon Echo machts möglich. Siri, Cortana oder – weniger attraktiv – Google Now hiessen die Sprachassistentin bis jetzt. Alexa bezeichnet sich selbst als «different». Nicht nur äusserlich, sondern auch funktionell und geht damit im E-Commerce neue Wege.
Amazon is planning to unveil new Alexa-powered devices based on artificial intelligence platform by the mid of this year, that will allow users to initiate phone calls by voice.
Learn more about Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo, provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice.
Guest Lecture _ Python Basics _ Alexa Skill Dev _ by Shivam Dutt SharmaShivamDuttSharma
On August 22, 2019, I was invited by my Alma Mater - Amrapali Group of Institutes to deliver a guest lecture on the basics of Python and my then ongoing project on Alexa Skill Development for my then employer - Ferns N Petals.
Reimagining your user experience with Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly and Alexa Ski...Amazon Web Services
AWS offers a family of AI services that provide cloud-native Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies, allowing developers to build an entirely new generation of apps that can hear, speak, understand, and converse with application users. When creating chat- and voice-enabled applications, developers have the choice of building with Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly, or, with the Alexa Skills Kit, available now in Australia and New Zealand. With the Alexa Skills Kit, you can build engaging skills to reach customers through tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices, like the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot.
IT Camp 2019: How to build your first Alexa skill in under one hourIonut Balan
The presentation I gave at IT Camp 2019 conference about how to build your first Alexa skill in under one hour using .NET Core, macOS and Azure Functions.
Design and Develop Alexa Skills - Codemotion Rome 2019Aleanan
Voice user interfaces have more and more impact on our daily lives: on our mobile phones, in our homes and in offices. The techniques and metaphors of graphical user interfaces do not apply to the world of voice. VUI design must be based on the "conversation", the first communication system we have learned and also the one we know best. Alessandra Petromilli (CXO) and Federico Baron (Software Architect) will guide you through the challenges related to the design and development with node.js of Alexa Skills starting from the use case "Filastrocche delle Buona Notte" designed and developed for Giunti Editore.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Building a Smarter Home with Alexa(ALX303)Amazon Web Services
Natural user interfaces, such as those based on speech, enable customers to interact with their home in a more intuitive way. With the VUI (Voice User Interface) smart home, now customers don't need to use their hands or eyes to do things around the home — they only have to ask and it's at their command. This session will address the vision for the VUI smart home and how innovations with Amazon Alexa make it possible.
AWS User Group Singapore / Amazon Lex -- JAWSDAYS 2017Alex Smith
In this presentation, we cover the growth and experience of the AWS User Group Singapore. The second half covers the use of Amazon Lex to augment User Group activities
This was originally delivered at JAWSDAYS 2017 Tokyo:- http://jawsdays2017.jaws-ug.jp/session/1337/
Engage your users with a natural language conversational interface using voice and text.
You will learn how to:
– Create a chat bot to understand your users’ intentions and fulfil their requests.
– Engage in a conversation to extract key pieces of data from the user
– Fulfil the users’ intentions with AWS Lambda functions
– Integrate with Facebook Messenger
Discussed in detail about how to design and develop custom skills (think custom apps) for Amazon Alexa Voice service.
Discusses how to design voice based experiences in detail.
NUS-ISS Learning Day 2017 - Voice Computing - The Next Digital Disruption!NUS-ISS
By Mr. Prasanna Veerapandi, Assistant Lecturer & Consultant, Startups & SME and Mr. Lee Cjin Pheow, Adjunct Lecturer
Voice is the next major disruption in computing! Big companies like Amazon. Google, Apple and Microsoft are pouring R&D into NLP and AI, making voice-activated hardware assistants like the Amazon Echo and the Google Home. This workshop will teach you how to start building your own Amazon Alexa Skills or Google Home Actions.
Serve Your Customers with AI from the Cloud: AWS Developer Workshop - Web Sum...Amazon Web Services
Serve Your Customers with AI from Cloud: AWS Developer Workshop - Web Summit 2018
Conversational interfaces are the latest hot trend in human computer interaction. In this session we will Deep Dive into Amazon Lex, an AWS service that enables developers to embed conversational interfaces within their own applications or deploy intelligent chatbots onto a variety of chat platforms and social networks. You'll also be able to interact with a production chatbot live during this session, so be sure to bring a device with Facebook Messenger along!
Speaker: Ian Massingham - Director, Technical Evangelist, AWS
Maximising the Customer Experience with Amazon Connect and AI ServicesAmazon Web Services
In this session, you will learn best practices for implementing simple to advanced use cases on Amazon Connect - a self-service, cloud-based contact center service that makes it easy for any business to deliver better customer service at lower cost. Amazon Connect is based on the same contact center technology used by Amazon customer service associates around the world to power millions of customer conversations
Getting Started with Amazon Lex - AWS Summit Cape Town 2017 Amazon Web Services
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, the same deep learning technologies that power Amazon Alexa are now available to any developer, enabling you to quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language conversational chatbots. No deep learning experience is required to immediately start creating chatbots that understand voice or text, to ask questions, get answers, and complete sophisticated tasks. Lex enables you to easily publish your chatbots to mobile devices, web apps, services, and platforms such as Facebook Messenger, Twilio and Slack. This session will go over the features available with Amazon Lex and how they can be used to build and deploy chatbots. Join us for this introductory presentation and learn more about Amazon Lex!
AWS Speaker: Herbert-John Kelly, Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services
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Building Next Level Voice Games with AlexaMark Bate
Best practices for building great voice game experiences with Amazon Alexa.
For those that want to dive deep on each of the points, be sure to check this blog post: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/fae82327-15dc-4f31-9b52-11ef75203bfc/best-practices-for-building-voice-enabled-games
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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3. 70s 80s 90s 00s Present
mode
GUI
web
mobile
character
VUI
4.
5. WE BELIEVE VOICE REPRESENTS
THE NEXT MAJOR DISRUPTION IN COMPUTING
6. CONVERSATION IS THE MOST NATURAL WAY TO ENGAGE
WITH YOUR PRODUCTS
VOICE RELEASES THE FRICTION OF TRADITIONAL
TECHNOLOGY INTERACTION
USERS CAN NOW INTERACT WITH YOUR PRODUCT IN A
MORE INTIMATE WAY
13. Create Great Content:
ASK is how you connect
to your consumer
THE ALEXA SERVICE
Supported by two powerful SDKs
ALEXA
VOICE
SERVICE
Unparalleled Distribution:
AVS allows your content
to be everywhere
Lives In The Cloud
Automated Speech
Recognition (ASR)
Natural Language
Understanding (NLU)
Always Learning
ALEXA
SKILLS
KIT
20. Key Design Principles for
ALEXA SKILLS
Skills Should Provide High Value
A Skill Should Evolve Over Time
Users Can Speak to Your Skill Naturally and
Spontaneously
Alexa Should Understand Most Requests to
Your Skill
A Skill Should Respond in an Appropriate Way
21. High Utility Low Utility
Doing
Performs a Task
“Alexa, ask Scout to arm
away mode.”
“Away mode armed. You
have 45 seconds to leave
the house.”
Searching
Identifies specific info
“Alexa, ask Vendor if there
are Pearl Jam tickets
available for this
weekend.”
“There are a limited
number of tickets, ranging
from $49 to $279.”
Telling
Provides a quick reference
point
“Alexa, tell me a cat fact.”
“It is well known that dogs
are superior to cats.”
Browsing
Gives info on a broad
subject
“Alexa, ask Amazon what’s
on sale.”
“The following items are on
sale right now...”
22. Example of Automatic Learning
ALEXA SKILL
Alexa, launch Travel Buddy
Hi, I’m Travel Buddy. I can easily tell you about your
daily commute. Let’s get you set up. Where are you
starting from?
Las Vegas
Okay, and where are you going?
Los Angeles
Great, now whenever you ask, I can tell you about the
commute from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. The current
drive time is four hours and fourty-two minutes. There
is an accident on I-15 near Pasadena.
Alexa, launch Travel Buddy
Your commute is currently four hours and two minutes.
User engages skill
Give traffic information
Get destination
location
Do we have their
destination location?
Do we have their home
location?
Get home
location
YesNo
Is their home/destination
set up?
Give traffic information
No Yes
No Yes
23. AVOID FEATURE CREEP. KEEP IT SIMPLE
Don’t overwhelm your users with features out of the box. Voice is a new way for users to interact
with your product. Keep it simple and grow from there.
AS NATURAL CONVERSATION AS POSSIBLE
Try to make your utterances as natural as they possibly can. Top Tip: Have a real world
conversations with one another to create these.
CORE BUSINESS FUNCTIONALITY AS A MINIMUM
It’s important to do the fundamentals right. If you are a news company. Your users will naturally
expect you to at least provide the news. Do the extra features later.
UTILIZE THE BUILT IN LIBRARY
There are hundreds of entities that Alexa can understand using the Built-In library. You can handle
this in your skill by simply including them in your interaction model and respond with a useful
response.
VOICE DESIGN TOP TIPS
24. WHERE DO YOU START?
The Evolution of a Skill
Traffic Skill Example
Give an estimated time of
arrival from home to work.
Traffic Skill Example
Include accidents, construction
and closures on route.
Traffic Skill Example
Proactively alert user to delays
and provide alternate routes.
R U N
Evolve Over Time
CRAWL
What’s Your Core Functionality?
ANALYZE USER FEEDBACK
& OPTIMIZE SKILL
WALK
Expand Capabilities & Features
INNOVATE FOR
CUSTOMERS
26. UNDER THE HOOD OF THE ALEXA SKILLS KIT
A closer look at how the Alexa Skills Kit processes a request and returns an appropriate response
You Pass Back a Textual or
Audio Response
You Pass Back a Graphical
Response
Alexa Converts Text-to-Speech
(TTS) & Renders Graphical
Component
Respond to Intent
through Text & Visual
Alexa sends Customer
Intent to Your Service
Your Service
processes
Request
User Makes a
Request
Audio Stream is
sent up to Alexa Alexa Identifies Skill & Recognizes
Intent Through ASR & NLU
28. WHAT COMPONENTS MAKE UP A SKILL
Skills are made up of two components
Skill configuration in the Amazon Developer Portal. Our
Voice Interaction Model
and
Your skill code, hosted in AWS Lambda or your own
HTTPS endpoint. Our hosted service.
30. INVOCATION NAMES
Invocation names are how we know to route traffic
to your particular skill.
Interactions can be either:
One Shot – open your skill and perform an action
such as ‘Alexa, ask National Rail for my commute’
Conversational – Alexa, ask National Rail to set up
my commute’ - ‘OK, what is your regular departure
station’ – ‘Birmingham New Street’
Open Only – Alexa, open National Rail
Your skill can support all of these, it’s not one or
the other.
‘Alexa, ask National Rail for my commute’
Alexa, open Just Eat
Alexa tell Uber to get me a ride
Alexa, launch Cat Facts
Alexa, play RuneScape
31. INTENTS AND SLOTS
You define interactions for your voice app through
intent schemas
Each intent consists of two fields. The intent field
gives the name of the intent. The slots field lists the
slots associated with that intent.
Slots can also included types such as LITERAL,
NUMBER, DATE, etc.
intent schemas are uploaded to your skill in the
Amazon Developer Portal
{
"intents": [
{
"intent": "tubeinfo",
"slots": [
{
"name": "LINENAME",
"type": "LINENAMES"
}
]
}
]
}
32. CUSTOM SLOTS
Custom Slots increase the accuracy of Alexa when
identifying an argument within an intent.
They are created as a line separated list of values
It is recommended to have as many possible slots
as possible.
There are some built in slots for things such as
GB.City and GB.FirstName
bakerloo
central
circle
district
hammersmith and city
jubilee
metropolitan
northern
piccadilly
victoria
waterloo and city
london overground
tfl rail
DLR
33. Intents for human driven events such as: Cancel, Play, Pause, Repeat, Stop
or Help
Intents across multiple categories including: Books, Calendar, Cinema
Showtimes, General, Local Search, Music, Video, and Weather
Slots for Numbers, Dates, Times and List Types
AMAZON.DATE – converts words that indicate dates (“today”, “tomorrow”, or
“July”) into a date format (such as “2015-07-00T9”).
34. SAMPLE UTTERANCES
The mappings between intents and the typical utterances that
invoke those intents are provided in a tab-separated text document
of sample utterances.
Each possible phrase is assigned to one of the defined intents.
tubeinfo are there any disruptions on the {LINENAME} line
tubeinfo {LINENAME} line
“What is…”
“Are there…”
“Tell me…”
“Give me…”
“Give…”
“Find…”
“Find me…”
35. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
tubeinfo are there any delays on the {LINENAME} line
{
"intent": "tubeinfo",
"slots": [
{
"name": "LINENAME",
"type": "LINENAMES"
}
]
}
bakerloo
central
. . .
Utterance
Intent
Slots
37. REQUEST TYPES
LaunchRequest
Occurs when the users launch the app without specifying
what they want
IntentRequest
Occurs when the user specifies an intent
SessionEndedRequest
Occurs when the user ends the session
38. AN EXAMPLE REQUEST
If hosting your own service, you will need to handle
POST requests to your service over port 443 and
parse the JSON
With AWS Lambda, the event object that is passed
when invoking your function is equal to the request
JSON
Requests always include a type, requestId, and
timestamp
If an IntentRequest they will include the intent and
its slots
type maps directly to LaunchRequest,
IntentRequest, and SessionEndedRequest
"request": {
"type": "IntentRequest",
"requestId": "string",
"timestamp":"2016-05-13T13:19:25Z",
"intent": {
"name": "tubeinfo",
"slots": {
"LINENAME": {
"name": "LINENAME",
"value": "circle"
}
}
},
"locale": "en-GB"
}
39. AN EXAMPLE RESPONSE
Your app will need to build a response object that
includes the relevant keys and values.
The alexa-sdk for Node.js makes this super simple.
ouputSpeech, card and reprompt are the supported
response objects.
ShouldEndSession is a boolean value that
determines wether the conversations is complete
or not.
You can also store session data in the Alexa Voice
Service. These are in the sessionAttributes object.
{
"version": "1.0",
"response": {
"outputSpeech": {
"type": "SSML",
"ssml": "<speak>There are
currently no delays on the circle
line.</speak>"
},
"shouldEndSession": true
},
"sessionAttributes": {}
}
40. CHANGING ALEXA’S INFLECTION WITH SSML
• Alexa automatically handles normal punctuation, such as
pausing after a period, or speaking a sentence ending in a
question mark as a question.
• Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is a markup
language that provides a standard way to mark up text for the
generation of synthetic speech.
• Tags supported include: speak, p, s, break, say-as, phoneme,
w and audio.
41. Existing Customer with
ACCOUNT LINKING
• Allow your customers to link their existing
accounts with you, to Alexa.
• Customers are prompted to log in to your
site using their normal credentials with
webview url you provide.
• You authenticate the customer and
generate an access token that uniquely
identifies the customer and link the
accounts.
44. VOICE ENABLE ALL THE THINGS WITH ALEXA
M a r k B a t e
Solutions Architect, Alexa Skills Kit
@markbate
markbate@amazon.com
Editor's Notes
Let’s look at a history of user interfaces.
The evolution of user interfaces, every decade there is a new technology disruption.
Voice represents the latest interface.
ASR is at approx 95% accuracy today, we are striving for 99%
Voice is Everywhere! It’s the most natural user interface, it’s how were taught as children to communicate. We were’nt born with keyboards and or smart phones in our hands.
The idea is to put lots of voice enabled devices throughout the house
Mention how heavily invested we are in this area.
Talk about far field recognition. Investment in the first party device hardware and the newly released reference architecture for the microphone array.
Explain what skills are, and that we now have over 7,000 in the US
Thousands in the UK
Echo 2014
Hand’s free in noisy rooms – 7 mics
Echo v. Dot
Tap, FireTV, Tablets
The Echo is the first and best-known endpoint of the Alexa Ecosystem. We released Echo in 2014 to allow customers to engage with Alexa and control their home via voice. Alexa and The Echo device was built to make life easier and more enjoyable.
The Echo and the Echo Dot are what we call far-field Alexa devices.
You interact with them in a completely hand’s free way from anywhere in the room…even if that room is noisy.
They include a 7 microphone mic-array with advanced beam-forming and noise cancelling technology.
The difference between Echo and Echo Dot is simple: Echo has a powerful built-in speaker that provides room filling sound.
Echo Dot is smaller and contains a less powerful speaker and works great when connected to another audio system. Both include the same array microphone and are otherwise functionally identical
Alexa is also available other Amazon devices including Tap, our portable, battery powered speaker. Alexa is available on Fire TV via the push-to talk remote control that comes with it.
And just last week we announced Alexa on Amazon’s Fire Tablets.
Ideal for Smart Home and the CEDIA channel
Every room
Available in 6-packs and 12-packs
We will be enabling CEDIA partners to order them in bulk
Echo: White & Black
On Wednesday, we made a bunch of announcements. Hopefully you heard the news, but if you didn’t here's a recap:
First, we announced the general availability of the all-new Echo Dot, in two colors (White & Black).
The Echo Dot sells for $49 each. We’re also offering them in 6-packs and 12-packs. Buy 5 and get one free or buy 10 and get 2 free.
As you can see, we’ve engineered and priced it so that you can put them in every one of your customers’ rooms!
Next, we announced the original Echo is now available in White as well as black.
Those of you who deal in whole-home and multi-zone audio systems know that sound travels between rooms in the real world.
When a customer speaks to Alexa, when there are multiple Echo devices scattered throughout the home, you want Alexa to do the right thing and only respond in the room the customer is actually in. To enable this we’ve invented a new technology that was also announced on Weds: Echo Spatial Perception which goes by the nice acronym ESP. ESP gives Alexa the ability to perceive spatial relationships within the home.
Finally, we announced that our Alexa devices are available to customers in the UK and Germany, available for the first time outside the US.
Echo Spatial Perception
This shows how we are constantly innovating and enhancing the product.
I previously mentioned the Alexa ecosystem, so let’s spend a little time talking about what that means.
The Alexa Ecosystem is supported by two important frameworks that provide unparalleled distribution and ways to connect with your customer.
On one side we have ASK (Alexa Skills Kit) which empowers brands and developers to create rich voice experiences for their consumers;
On the other side is AVS (Alexa Voice Service), which ensures that the places that Alexa can go are endless
All you Have to Do Is ASK (What is the Alexa Skills Kit?)
The ASK is our SDK, read human….our way of making the voice experience via Alexa possible.
ASK gives you the ability to create new voice-driven capabilities (also known as skills, think Apps) for Alexa using the new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK).
You can connect existing services to Alexa in minutes with just a few lines of code.
You can also build entirely new voice-powered experiences in a matter of hours, even if you know nothing about speech recognition or natural language processing.
AVS: Serving a Platform Agnostic Voice Experience
Let’s start with AVS, it’s through the Alexa Voice Service that, hardware manufacturers and other participants in the new and exciting world of the Internet of Things (IoT) can incorporate an Alexa-driven voice experience into their devices.
Any device that has a speaker, a microphone, and an Internet connection can integrate Alexa with a few lines of code.
This enables a platform agnostic growth strategy that ends with your consumer having one, if not multiple seamless touch-points to a world by voice.
Just imagine what that means…
While right now there are two Amazon provided endpoints, picture everything from a car to a microwave to a pen, and more...all enabled to deliver an experience by voice
Talk briefly about how AVS enables us to get wider distribution. Skills and interactions are not limited to first party devices.
Tons of other integrations from hardware manufacturrers
But the focus of today is the Alexa skills kit. And we’ll be focussing on custom skills.
Talk about the consumer experience
Let’s take a step back and look under the hood of ASK.
When the user makes a request of Alexa, all of THIS happens in just seconds...resulting in audio and/or visual feedback to the user.
So how does this work...
The customer speaks into a device
Ex. Alexa, what do I make for dinner?
Ex. Alexa, play a song from Bruno Mars
We send an audio file up to the Alexa Service sitting in the cloud.
Alexa identifies your skill and recognizes intent through Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Alexa passes the intent and variables (ie. slots) to your service, where you process and return VUI and GUI
Graphical Experiences are delivered via the companion app, and on companion screens with the recent launch on FireTV
VUI, again, through the speaker (could be text or audio file)
Demos of the developer portal screens. Hidden slides that follow show what to enter or demonstrate.
Demos of the developer portal screens. Hidden slides that follow show what to enter or demonstrate.