What you'll learn
- Build smooth voice-activated apps for Echo and other Alexa-aware devices
- Design and build sound interaction models for your Alexa skills
- Implement robust fulfilment models using AWS Lambdas
Requirements
- Basic javascript programming
- Basic understanding of HTTP/s and how REST APIs work
Description
Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Now - voice-activated personal assistants are one of the hottest trends in technology these days. They are a great way to convey complex information to your customers in a free-flowing, conversational way. Alexa is a great way to build them - an AWS service for building conversational interfaces for Echo, FireTV and a host of Alexa-aware devices.
- Alexa and Lex are state-of-the-art, with support for new devices being added all the time
- Powered by a deep learning based engine that parses user voice and resolves the contents of user utterances to API calls and parameter values
- No deep learning or natural language processing expertise is needed to build even complex voice and chat apps
- Provides an intuitive way of specifying the conversational interface
- Automatically and dynamically adjusts conversational responses
- Easy to build, test and publish app
In the sections on Alexa we will cover:
- The big picture - voice and text interfaces and current trends in human-computer interaction
- How Alexa, Lex, Echo and the other bits of the Amazon ecosystem come together
- Interaction models: Utterances, intents, slots, prompts and their resolution into API calls
- Fulfilment models: Using AWS Lambdas to fulfil user intents, and how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpoints
In the sections on Lex we will cover:
- Interaction models: Utterances, intents, slots, prompts and their resolution into API calls
- Fulfilment models: Using AWS Lambdas to fulfil user intents, and how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpoints
- Third-party integration: How a chatbot can be added to your Slack workspace
Who this course is for:
- Echo or FireTV developers looking to build Alexa Skills
- Website and mobile app developers looking to add voice apps
Course content
- Preview02:40
- 00:04Source Code and PDFs
Instructor
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Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan. Between us, we have studied at Stanford, been admitted to IIM Ahmedabad and have spent years working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore.
Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft
Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too
We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Udemy!
We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)