Introduction to Alexa Skill Building

Editor's Notes

• #2: Welcome to the talk. Patrick Blitz, CTO of Challtell Today, I will introduce Alexa and what we can do with it. Will not focus on UX (Voice UI), but rather trying to show the base operating principles
• #3: Alexa really doesn‘t do much – it‘s an interface to do stuff with. It can do great things like playing music (it‘s a speaker) but also controlling your home, telling decent chuck norris jokes – and whatever you teach it to do How many of you have had Siri or google Now (on cellphones) understand them nearly always (i.e. you feel you can use it reliably?) With the formfactor (Echo/echo dot and echo whatever), Alexa just works a lot better.
• #5: Alexa takes care of the heavy lifting by processing language into something we can work with. Later, defining the Skill, we give it spoke language queris that will be sued to train the AI to recongize user input – and map what the user says into “intent“ requests that our skill can easily understand – basically, predefined input. This makes programming voice assistants really easy.
• #6: Skills don‘t do anything with spoken language – or audio files unless you want to do that
• #9: Caveat: Invocation Word should be two words (so the above is wrong!)
• #10: Important: