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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

By : Williams
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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

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By: Williams

Overview of this book

Have you ever wondered how Alexa apps are made, how voice-enabled technologies work, or how chatbots function? And why tech giants such as Amazon and Google are investing in voice technologies? A better question is: why should I start developing on these platforms? Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex covers all features of the Alexa Skills kit with real-world examples that help you develop skills to integrate Echo and chatbots into Facebook, Slack, and Twilio with the Amazon Lex platform. The book starts with teaching you how to set up your local environment and AWS CLI so that you can automate the process of uploading AWS Lambda from your local machine. You will then learn to develop Alexa Skills and Lex chatbots using Lambda functions to control functionality. Once you’ve come to grips with this, you will learn to create increasingly complex chatbots, integrate Amazon S3, and change the way Alexa talks to the user. In the concluding chapters, we shift our focus to Amazon Lex and messaging chatbots. We will explore Alexa, learn about DynamoDB databases, and add cards to user conversations. By the end of this book, you will have explored a full set of technologies that will enable you to create your own voice and messaging chatbots using Amazon.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Methods for working with Lambdas

One of the big advantages of Lambdas is that you can choose how you write and edit them. There are three main ways to do so:

  • Lambda Console
  • Cloud9
  • On your local machine

I’m going to cover all three and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

Method 1 – Lambda Console

This is the way that we have just created our first Lambda function. In the Lambda Console, we have a basic editor. It’s based on the Cloud9 IDE and works well for simple Lambda functions.

The advantages:

  • It’s a good editor
  • You can access it from any computer through your AWS Console

The disadvantages:

  • It doesn’t seem to be very stable. Sometimes it doesn’t let you...

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