Introducing Alexa Conversations

Alexa Conversations is a relatively new feature of the Alexa platform that enables richer and more flexible multi-turn conversations than what the original dialog model could ever achieve. At this time, Alexa Conversations is generally available in the “en_US” locale and in beta for “en-AU”, “en-CA”, “en-IN”, “en-GB”, “de-DE”, “ja-JP”, “es-ES”, and “es-US”.

Alexa Conversations, much like the dialogs we created in Chapter 4, Creating Multi-Turn Dialogs, work toward the goal of achieving some sort of task, such as planning a interplanetary vacation. Along the way, there is a back and forth exchange between Alexa and the user in which questions asked by Alexa are answered by the user, ultimately arriving at the ...

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