Building the interaction model

In addition to the concepts we explored in the QuoteMaster skill, in this task we will explore more complex conversational elements: slots. Let us follow the seven step process from earlier to create a new skill called My TV:

  1. Fill in the Skill Information and move on to the Interaction Model page.
  2. Click Launch Skill Builder and open the dashboard. As before, you will see that there are three intents in the model by default.
  3. As you may have noticed, there are elements in the preceding questions that can be enumerated and classified as entity types. For instance, BBC One, BBC Two, and ITV can be classified as networks. In Alexa, this knowledge can be fed into the system as slot types. To create a slot type, here ...

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