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Alexa Skills Projects

By : Madhur Bhargava

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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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What is Alexa?

The Need for Voice-Based Personal Assistants

Applications of Voice-Based Personal Assistants

A Comparison of Various Voice-Based Personal Assistants

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Hello World, Alexa!

An Introduction to Amazon Echo

Anatomy of an Alexa Skill

Hello Alexa – Building a Hello World Alexa Skill

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Hands-Free Experience with Alexa

Overview of the Handsfree Messenger Skill

Configuring the Twilio Messaging Backend

Configuring the Handsfree Messenger Skill

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Let's Play Factly with Alexa

Motivation for Designing Factly

Designing the Factly Skill

Building the Factly Skill

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Making Alexa Talk About CryptoCurrencies

A Brief Introduction to Cryptocurrencies

Designing the CryptoOracle skill

Building the CryptoOracle skill

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Home Automation with Alexa

Introduction to Home Automation and Ambient Sensors

Designing the Ambience Manager Skill

Developing the Mobile App

Developing the Ambience Manager Skill

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The Future of Voice-Based Personal Assistants

Popular Alexa Skills

Comparing Various Voice-Based Assistants

Future of Voice-Based Assistants

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Home Automation with Alexa

"Communication must be HOT. That's Honest, Open, and Two-Way."

– Dan Oswald

As we progress through this book, the skills we create are evolving too. We started with a simple Hello World Skill and went on to create an SMS sender, a trivia game, a skill that talks about cryptocurrencies, and in this chapter, we will be working on Ambience Manager, which can tell us the ambience parameters, such as the temperature and humidity, of our homes.

We will be designing this skill by covering the following topics:

Introduction to Home Automation and Ambient Sensors
Designing the Ambience Manager Skill
Developing the Mobile App
Developing the Ambience Manager Skill

This chapter will be covering a lot of ground since our Ambience Manager Skill will be communicating with an ambient sensor, hence it will also involve the details regarding the...