Practical Bot Development: Designing and Building Bots with Node.js and Microsoft Bot Framework

© Szymon Rozga 2018

Szymon RozgaPractical Bot Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3540-9_14

14. Applying Our Learnings: Alexa Skills Kit

Szymon Rozga¹ 

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Port Washington, New York, USA

 

One of book’s goals is to emphasize that the ideas, techniques, and skills introduced throughout apply to many types of applications. In this chapter, by creating a simple Alexa skill, we demonstrate how we can apply our knowledge of intent classification, entity extraction, and dialog construction to create a natural language voice experience. We begin by creating an Alexa skill in the simplest way possible, by using the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js. Since we already have a bot service back end, you may inevitably ask whether we can integrate Alexa ...