Alexa Skills In 24 Hours

Learn A-Z of Alexa to build your own innovative & engaging skills

What you'll learn
A-Z of Alexa skill-building
How to use AWS services like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB
How to display or play music in Alexa
You will be able to publish and get your skills certified on your own
You will be able to create simple and commercial Alexa skills
Requirements
Functional knowledge on JavaScript
Basic understanding of JSON
You should have prior experience with Node js
Description
Hello learners, Welcome to MAKERDEMY's “Alexa Skills in 24 Hours.”Amazon's Alexa is undoubtedly one of the best today in the field of Voice AI. Be it commerce, entertainment, games. You name it, Alexa has got it. Do you want to up-skill yourself and be one among the very few in the world to know how to program Alexa into doing whatever you want? This is an introductory level course, and it is tailor-made in such a way that it is a complete guide that teaches you just about every aspect of building Alexa skills.If you are a developer or an engineer who wants to build engaging Alexa skills or if you are someone with curiosity and interest to explore Amazon alexa skills, this course is perfect for you.Even though this is a beginner level course, to get the maximum value out of this course, you should have a functional knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, JSON.This course will teach you A-Z of skill-building like How to use AWS services to build Alexa skills. You will also learn how to make Alexa remember your voice. How to display images in echo show, how to use SSML tags, how to add audio in Alexa skills, and so on. You will also learn some advanced Alexa concepts like entity resolution, dialog management, and state management.Throughout the course, I have provided a curated collection of resources. These resources include links to complete code, documents for in-depth learning, and more.Furthermore, our Instructor team has an excellent track record of answering your queries and clearing your doubts. Thus, they will be ready to answer any of your course-related questions.So, what are you waiting for?! Come, join me in this course. I'm looking forward to being your instructor and to make you a Master of Alexa.

Overview

Section 1: Know your playground

Lecture 1 Introduction to the course

Lecture 2 An overview of Alexa Devices

Lecture 3 An overview of Alexa & Alexa skills

Lecture 4 A tour of the developer console

Lecture 5 An overview of official Alexa documentation

Section 2: Building your first skill

Lecture 6 The first steps

Lecture 7 Intents

Lecture 8 Interaction model 1.0

Lecture 9 Update for Video 2.3

Lecture 10 Slots

Lecture 11 Update for Video 2.4

Lecture 12 A first look at the back-end code

Lecture 13 Back-end code - A complete look

Section 3: AWS Lambda

Lecture 14 Habitat skill - The front-end

Lecture 15 The back-end code on AWS Lambda

Section 4: Skill using display

Lecture 16 The quiz skill - The front end

Lecture 17 Session attributes & arrays

Lecture 18 The image quiz completed

Section 5: First Milestone project

Lecture 19 Make my own skill

Lecture 20 Milestone project solution - The front-end

Lecture 21 Milestone project solution - The back-end

Lecture 22 Distribution, Certification, Publishing, and Analytics

Section 6: Working with SSML

Lecture 23 SSML Tags

Lecture 24 Voice tags

Lecture 25 Emotions & Effects

Lecture 26 Emphasis, Prosody, & Phoneme

Lecture 27 Using audio in skills

Lecture 28 Back-end code for the audio quiz

Section 7: Let’s make Alexa smarter

Lecture 29 What is entity resolution?

Lecture 30 Alexa skill with entity resolution

Lecture 31 Entity resolution skill expansion

Lecture 32 Introduction to Dialog management

Lecture 33 Implementing dialog management at Front-end - Part I

Lecture 34 Implementing dialog management at Front-end - Part II

Lecture 35 Implementing dialog management at Back-end - Part I

Lecture 36 Implementing dialog management at Back-end - Part II

Lecture 37 Introduction to State management

Lecture 38 Implementing State management - Part I

Lecture 39 Implementing State management - Part II

Lecture 40 Implementing State management - Part III

Lecture 41 Alexa Blueprints

Section 8: Skill Personalization

Lecture 42 What is skill personalization?

Lecture 43 Voice profiles

Lecture 44 Building an Alexa skill with personalization

Lecture 45 Scope & prospects for skill personalization

Section 9: Final Milestone project

Lecture 46 The final milestone project description

Lecture 47 Milestone project solution - The front-end

Lecture 48 Milestone project solution - The back-end

Lecture 49 The future of Voice AI

A developer or engineer who wants to create Alexa skills 'with' or 'without' AWS services,Any hobbyist who wants to create Alexa skills,Anyone with curiosity to explore Amazon Alexa skill development,Anyone with an interest to learn "Tomorrow's technology" and stay ahead of the curve