April 2017
Intermediate
59m
English
Overview
Amazon's Alexa is the world's most popular voice activated digital assistant. More than seven million Alexa-ready devices are in use, and more than ten thousand Alexa voice applications - aka Alexa skills - have already been published. In this course, Alexa Champion Terren Peterson explains the underlying architecture of the Alexa platform and then shows you, step-by-step, how to create an Alexa skill and get it published onto the Alexa platform, where it could be used by millions of people.
- Discover the Amazon Developer Services portal and harness it to build your first Alexa application
- Explore the AWS Lambda platform that hosts the Alexa apps used by the general public
- Master each phase of the entire Alexa software development lifecycle
- Learn about interaction models, intent schemas, Lambda function testing, and more
- Understand the basics of creating a voice user interface (VUI)
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