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Developing Alexa Skills for Amazon Echo
In this course, you'll learn the foundations of developing voice-enabled apps for Amazon Echo, and build your own custom Alexa Skill in C# and ASP.NET Web API.
What you'll learn
Amazon Echo and the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) open new doors of opportunities to build voice-enabled apps without deep knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This course, Developing Alexa Skills for Amazon Echo, will get you started working with Alexa Skills. First, you'll learn the differences between Echo and Alexa, as well as the differences between Alexa Voice Service and Alexa Skills Kit. Next, you will quickly evaluate the 'Hello World' node.js sample code provided by Amazon. Finally, you will see the certification process and requirements as well as the publication stages and creating new versions of live Skills. By the end of this course, you'll be better prepared to build voice-enabled apps, test them on your own Amazon Echo device, and publish them to the Amazon Skills store for others to enjoy.
Table of contents
- Introduction | 30s
- What Is Amazon Echo? | 32s
- Alexa, Tell Me More! | 29s
- Sample Use Cases | 44s
- Getting Started with the ASK | 10s
- User Interaction Flow | 42s
- Voice Design | 1m 29s
- Supported Phrases | 49s
- Define the Voice Interface - Intent Schema | 2m 39s
- Define the Voice Interface - Sample Utterances | 2m 8s
- Recap and What's Next | 51s
- Starting Your First Alexa Skill | 59s
- Where to Go | 1m 37s
- Browsing the Code Samples | 5m 17s
- Creating a Web API Project in Visual Studio | 4m 58s
- Publishing to Azure | 6m 32s
- Working in the Amazon Developer Portal | 2m 42s
- SSML | 5m 41s
- Testing Your New Skill | 4m 19s
- Recap and What's Next | 1m 26s
About the author
Walter Quesada is a Software Engineer and Experience Technologist with over 20 years architecting and developing solutions for SMB's to Fortune 500 companies. Although primarily focused on architecting and programming .NET/C# applications, he enjoys some C++, Objective-C, Python, node.js, and Java fun from time to time.
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