
Learn to build Alexa skills from the ground up using JavaScript, Node.js, and JSON. Follow the roadmap to deploy with AWS Lambda and explore features like SSML and entity resolution.
Discover the range of Alexa devices, including Echo generations with far-field voice recognition, Echo Plus with Zigbee, and display devices like Echo Show and Echo Spot, plus Fire TV Cube.
Explore updates to the alexa developer console, including multimodal responses that combine visuals with audio. Try alexa conversations in beta under interfaces, available in the English US region.
Explore the backend code for Alexa skills with Node.js and the ASK-SDK, covering request and intent handlers, launch handling, and the response builder.
Builds the front end of the milestone project for the Alexa skill and introduces the evaluate model feature. Shows intents for name, size, base, cheese, veggies, and main toppings.
This video builds the back end of the milestone project for an Alexa skill, wiring launch, name, size, base, cheese, veggies, and main toppings handlers with session attributes.
Learn how SSML tags control Alexa speech, including audio, break, emphasis, prosody, and phoneme, and apply voice tags and Amazon Polly voices to enhance your skill’s audio experience.
Explore dialog management in Amazon Alexa, including slot filling, one-shot utterances, underfilled and overfilled utterances, to manage multi-turn conversations and deliver accurate intent responses.
Develop front-end dialog management by building a movie or song recommender with category and genre slots, slot filling, confirmation, synonyms, and auto delegation.
Complete the back-end dialog management for an Alexa skill by wiring ask-sdk-core, defining category and genre slots, and enabling multi-turn movie and song recommendations with slot resolution.
Continue building the state management back-end for an Alexa skill with a serverless AWS Lambda setup and the ask-sdk, using persistent attributes to manage a pizza order flow.
Build an Alexa skill that personalizes responses using voice profiles, recognizing the user to say 'Hi {name}' or 'Hi Stranger,' and configure locale, permissions, and testing for accurate personalization.
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.