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Build Alexa Skills on AWS
3 Courses
4 Hours
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Voice experiences are driving new methods of digital interaction, and the industry leading platform for these experiences is the Amazon Alexa platform. This skill path will walk you through the basics of the developer platform for Amazon Alexa while also familiarizing you with the voice interaction model, hosting approaches, and developer tool sets.
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Voice experiences are driving new methods of digital interaction, and the industry leading platform for these experiences is the Amazon Alexa platform. This skill path will walk you through the basics of the developer platform for Amazon Alexa while also familiarizing you with the voice interaction model, hosting approaches, and developer tool sets.
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What You'll Learn
- Summarize the key elements of interaction with an Alexa skill
- Contrast different Alexa skill types and their capabilities
- Summarize the tools used to create experiences for Alexa
- Create an Alexa-hosted custom skill using a predefined template
- Differentiate the key elements of an Alexa skill
- Design a custom interaction model to fit a specific use case
- Utilize slots to gather information from a user
- Respond to unexpected responses
- Explain AWS services that can support an Alexa custom skill
- Explain different compute approaches for the backend of an Alexa skill
- Summarize the lifecycle of a skill's backend code using AWS Lambda
- Explain security requirements and best practices for an Alexa skill
- Summarize the capabilities of in-skill purchasing
- Utilize SSML to configure Alexa responses
- Implement state management for a skill
- Explain Alexa service interfaces
- Interpret request and response JSON from the Alexa service
- Describe the tools that can be leveraged to debug an Alexa skill
- Discuss the purpose and process for beta-testing an Alexa skill
- Describe the process of publishing an Alexa skill
- Explain user permissions within an Amazon Developer account
- Identify the different statuses of an Alexa skill
- Discuss the supported reports and their use from the analytics section of the console
- Review the certification exam structure and content
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of Node.js
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