Advanced Alexa

Name: Advanced Alexa
Rating: 4.6 (30 reviews)

Learn to build and monetize real world Alexa skills

Created byVenkatesh Varadachari, Balaji Nikhil

Last updated 4/2020

English

What you'll learn

Advanced concepts in Alexa
In-skill Purchasing
Building Personalized skills
Artificial Intelligence

Course content

4 sections • 18 lectures • 5h 43m total length

Introduction to the course5:16
Explore advanced Alexa concepts with hands-on guidance on entity resolution, dialog and state management, dynamic entities, and in skill purchasing to build more personalized, monetizable skills.
Overview of Basic Alexa Concepts13:52
Explore how Alexa works, what a skill is, the voice user interface and backend, and how to set up a skill with intents, slots, and endpoints.
What is Entity Resolution and why it is important7:58
Explore how entity resolution links diverse utterances to a single slot value, reducing backend work and enabling natural speech with synonyms in Alexa skills.
How Entity Resolution works7:39
Master entity resolution by defining IDs and synonyms for slot values to resolve utterances automatically. Access resolved values in backend code via handler input and the interaction model.
Code Implementation of Entity Resolution24:48
Explore building an Alexa skill with and without entity resolution, testing the voice user interface, intents, and slots. See how entity resolution reduces effort by mapping synonyms to main values.
Quiz-1
Assignment-1

What is Dialog Management and why it is important18:32
Explore dialog management in Alexa to track the dialog state (started, in progress, completed), manage required slots with prompts, and handle one-shot, under-filled, and overfilled utterances.
How Dialog Management works24:20
Explore how dialog management governs Alexa interactions, covering required slots, slot filling, elicitation, and confirmations in frontend and backend across single-turn and multi-turn conversations.
Code Implementation of Dialog Management26:45
Explore dialog management in Alexa skills by implementing slot filling and delegation to collect name, profession, and interests, with examples like let us get familiar and wine cellar.
How to Enhance the Conversational Voice Design26:25
Master conversational voice design by applying conditional slot collection and dialog management, training prompts for built-in slots, and testing Alexa skills with ASK-CLI.
Quiz-2
Assignment-2

What is State Management and why it is important9:53
Discover why state management matters for Alexa skills, learn how memory stores user data across sessions with session and persistent attributes, and see how context switches enhance personalized conversations.
How State management works17:02
Code Implementation of State Management30:42
Explore state management in Alexa skills by storing user data with session and persistent attributes, testing in the developer console, and building a DynamoDB-backed Lambda backend.
Elements that enhance state management23:26
Learn how Alexa uses OAuth 2.0 account linking and tokens to access user data, and how context switching with or without dialog management enhances natural conversations.
Quiz-3
Assignment-3

Dynamic Entities21:58
Explore dynamic entities in a skill. Learn how to update slot values at runtime, leverage entity resolution and dynamic catalogs for personalization, and understand limitations and certification implications.
In-skill Purchasing19:31
Discover how monetization via in-skill purchasing unlocks content in Alexa skills by selling real-world goods and digital items through one-time purchases, consumables, and subscriptions, with frontend and backend implementation.
Update: Dynamic Entities & In-Skill Purchasing2:29
Code Implementation of Dynamic Entities30:07
Advanced Alexa teaches implementing dynamic entities to build a crypto helper skill that provides latest cryptocurrency prices, ranks, and market changes using coin market cap data, DynamoDB, and Lambda.
Code Implementation of In-skill Purchasing32:49
Learn to implement in-skill purchasing in an Alexa skill by adding two ISP products, tips and story, and configuring front end and back end to handle buy and cancel flows.
Quiz-4
Assignment-4

Requirements

Have developed a basic Alexa skill
Have basic knowledge of concepts in Alexa
Have good programming experience in java script or node js

Description

April 2020 Update

Included Updated method to implement Dynamic Entities & In-Skill Purchasing using the latest APIs

Hello learners, Welcome to MAKERDEMY’s “Advanced Alexa” course. If you are looking for one course that will help you in learning advanced concepts in Alexa and build great skills with good conversational elements and great purpose, then you have come to the right place.

Designing for voice is the next big thing that is going to happen, where the Developers who have great knowledge of the advanced concepts available in Alexa can make a great life by building skills individually or for companies that use voice as one way to perform operations.

So if you want to be the voice-first designer and developer, then this course is for you. All the concepts that are required for building Alexa skills with good voice design are illustrated with good examples.

Therefore, come join me in this Advanced Alexa course. I am looking forward to being your instructor and hearing about the incredible skills you were able to make with Alexa and its advanced concepts.

Who this course is for:

Basic Alexa skill developers who want to enhance their Alexa skills by learning advanced concepts in Alexa.
Alexa skill developers who want to make money out of their Alexa skills.
Anyone who knows the basics of Alexa and have the interest to learn advanced concepts in Alexa and build some good skills

Advanced Alexa

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Course content

Entity Resolution5 lectures • 1hr

Dialog Management4 lectures • 1hr 36min

State Management4 lectures • 1hr 21min

Dynamic Entities and In-skill Purchasing5 lectures • 1hr 47min

Requirements

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