Dissecting Skills
Skills are composed of two essential elements: the fulfillment implementation, which is code that provides the skill’s behavior, and the interaction model that describes how a human may interact with the skill.
The interaction model’s main purpose is to assist Alexa’s NLP in understanding what is said and where requests should be sent. It defines three things:
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An invocation name: The name by which a skill may be launched
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Utterances: Sample questions, commands, or phrases that a user might say to the skill
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Intents: Unique and precise commands that the user intends for Alexa to perform, mapped to one or more utterances
The invocation name acts as the trigger that launches a skill so that a user may talk to it. It’s roughly ...
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