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Alexa Skills Projects

Alexa Skills Projects

By : Madhur Bhargava
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Alexa Skills Projects

Alexa Skills Projects

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By: Madhur Bhargava

Overview of this book

Amazon Echo is a smart speaker developed by Amazon, which connects to Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service and is entirely controlled by voice commands. Amazon Echo is currently being used for a variety of purposes such as home automation, asking generic queries, and even ordering a cab or pizza. Alexa Skills Projects starts with a basic introduction to Amazon Alexa and Echo. You will then deep dive into Alexa Programming concepts such as Intents, Slots, Lambdas and maintaining your skill’s state using DynamoDB. You will get a clear understanding of how some of the most popular Alexa Skills work, and gain experience of working with real-world Amazon Echo applications. In the concluding chapters, you will explore the future of voice-enabled applications and their coverage with respect to the Internet of Things. By the end of the book, you will have learned to design Alexa Skills for specific purposes and interact with Amazon Echo to execute these skills.
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Designing the Factly Skill

We hope that the discussion in the last section should have given you a fair idea of the motivation behind the Factly Alexa Skill. Now, we shall level up and design the actual Factly Skill. It is always better to design before coding anything because it gives us a clarity about the end goals of the software and the finer details, which we may otherwise miss when we actually code the software.

The Factly Alexa Skill is a simple quiz skill. At the code level, the Factly Skill/Lambda will contain a bank of questions that will be presented to the user one by one. The skill will further perform depending on the user's reply.

Factly will work via the following steps:

  1. The user will launch the Factly Skill via a standard Alexa Skill launch utterance.
  2. Alexa will confirm the launch and provide a brief introduction to the skill and play method:
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