Deploying and Testing the Conversation
At this point, for any other skill, all we’d need to do is use the ASK CLI to deploy our skill and then try it out, either with ask dialog, through the developer console, or with an actual device. But skills built with Alexa Conversations require an extra step to prepare the conversation model for upload. So before we can deploy and test our skill, we’ll need to compile the conversation model.
Compiling the Conversation Model
ACDL is designed to be easily understood by developers, making it easy to define a conversation model. But ACDL isn’t so easily understood by Alexa’s AI engine. So, before we can deploy the skill, we need to compile the conversation model, transforming it from ACDL to a JSON format ...
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