Developing Skills for AWS Alexa

Learn how to develop custom apps, also called skills, for Alexa, the Echo brand of smart speaker devices from Amazon.

Introduction

• Create intelligent conversational design
• What you should know
• Introduction to Amazon Echo (Alexa)

1. Design Your Alexa Skill

• Designing effective voice interactions
• Enabling and invoking skills
• Understanding the interaction model

2. Alexa Skill First Steps

• Starting a new Alexa skill
• Getting to know the Alexa developer console
• Hello World: The build tab
• Hello World: The code tab
• Hello World: The test tab

3. Building the Interaction Model

• Demo skill: What are we going to do?
• Creating your first custom intent
• Extending the custom intent with custom slot types
• Responding to requests with intent handlers
• Troubleshooting with CloudWatch

4. Enhancing the Voice Interaction

• Modifying speech with SSML
• Adding and playing media
• Keeping context with session persistence
• Adding a request interceptor
• Manual dialog delegation and slot elicitation
• Handling interruptions by restoring intent state
• Remembering key information with long-term persistence
• Handling yes/no questions
• Restoring data from persistence
• Personalize your skill by requesting user profile data
• Grant and use profile data permissions

5. Publishing to the Alexa Skill Store

• Submitting your skill for beta testing and certification

Conclusion

• Next steps