Learn Alexa the fun way

Name: Learn Alexa the fun way
Rating: 4.8 (33 reviews)

Learn to create interesting and fun-filled Amazon Alexa skiils and publish them

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Created byVenkatesh Varadachari, Aishwarya Srisankaran

Last updated 7/2020

English

What you'll learn

Amazon Alexa
Artificial Intelligence
Building skills

Course content

5 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 42m total length

Introduction4:58
This video will clearly convey the course outcome, the intended audience, and the prerequisites required to take up the course.
What are the Alexa enabled devices?6:03
This video explains the different echo devices, the capability of Alexa and how Alexa works.
Creating your first Alexa skill13:11
This video guides the learners to build their first Alexa skill by introducing them to the Amazon developer portal. The students will learn to build, program and test their basic introduction skill, in which Alexa will introduce herself.
Expanding your first Alexa skill part - 110:42
This video expands the basic introduction skill built in the previous section by adding more sample utterance, and including a visual card to their skill. The students will also understand their program, line by line.
Expanding your first Alexa skill part - 27:20
This video also expands the first skill created by the students by using multiple intents. The students will learn to create multiple intents and understand clearly how different utterances invoke different intents.
Section 1 Quiz
Section 1 Assignment

Including images in the card4:31
In the previous section, the students have learnt to include cards to display texts in their skill. In this video, they will learn to take it to the next level by including images in their cards.
Introduction to slots4:47
In this video, the students will learn to read certain data from the user’s utterances using slots, and explore the inbuilt slot values and the custom slot values.
Including slots in your Alexa skill3:53
In this video, the student’s will create a skill to greet the user, with the user’s name.
Creating an image quiz10:28
In this video, the student’s will learn to combine the things they learnt in this section to create an image quiz. The image quiz will display images in cards, and if the user guesses the correct answer, then the user scores a point.
Read sentences as input3:10
In this video, the students will learn to use slots to identify a phrase and eventually build a customized version of ‘Simon says’ game.
Section 2 Quiz
Section 2 Assignment

Working with AWS3:49
In this video the user will learn to create their AWS account and learn in detail about the Amazon Web Services.
Exploring the features of AWS6:39
In this video, the students will learn about the different features of the AWS like, storage, database, security, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS lambda, etc.
Modifying audio to be Alexa usable5:21
Since normal mp3 audios are not good when heard in the echo devices, the audio has to be modified using Audacity to match a particular frequency. In this video, the users will learn to install and modify the audio to be Alexa usable.
Creating an audio quiz part 14:22
In this video, the students will learn to store the audio that they created in the previous video in the S3 bucket and use this audio in their skill.
Creating an audio quiz part 27:36
In this video, the students will learn to create an audio quiz where the user has to guess the song title by listening to the music.
Section 3 Quiz
Section 3 Assignment

Understanding ASK - CLI5:46
This video gives the students a brief introduction about the ASK - CLI
Installing ASK - CLI8:29
In this video, the students will learn to install the ASK - CLI from the command prompt and set it up.
Configuring ASK-CLI2:14
In this video, the students will learn to install the visual studio code and create a new skill with the ASK - CLI
Creating a new skill with ASK - CLI7:05
In this video, the students will learn to create and test a skill using ASK-CLI
A short note on "ask deploy"0:54
Introduction to DynamoDB5:00
In this video, a brief introduction about the DynamoDB, its uses and advantages are given.
Including DynamoDB in our skill11:17
In this video, the students learn how to include DynamoDB in their skill
Section 4 Assignment

Introduction to SSML2:47
In this video, the students are given an introduction about Speech Synthesis Markup Language
SSML tags8:39
In this video, the various SSML tags like voice, emphasis, etc. are explored
Including SSML tags in our skill6:33
In this video, the students learn to create a story-teller skill where each character has a voice and accent of their own.
Publishing your skill in the Alexa skills store4:14
This video will show you how to publish your Alexa skills for certification
Conclusion2:21
This video will summarize everything we learnt in the course
Create a small story telling skill and publish it

Requirements

Have basic programming experience
Have little knowledge on Java script or node js

Description

June 2020 Update

Included a new lecture on the important ASK DEPLOY
command
Included document to solve frequent error and queries faced by students
Updated Videos 1.5, 2.5, 3.3 & 4.6

Hello learners, Welcome to MAKERDEMY's "Learn Alexa the fun way" course. If you are looking for that one course that will help you gain the confidence to build and publish Amazon Alexa skills, you have come to the right place.

With numerous custom made illustrations and animations, we have set the standard in terms of production quality. All so that you can have a terrific learning experience.

This course is meant for anyone who wants to build many fun-filled Alexa skills and publish them for the whole world to use.

If you are an engineer who wants to get started with Artificial Intelligence or a hobbyist looking to learn about Alexa or earn money by publishing custom Alexa skills, then I am sure this course will be perfect for you. This is because we have tailored this course by giving equal importance to both the projects as well as the concepts.

So come, join me in this introductory course on Learning Alexa the fun way. I am looking forward to being your instructor and hearing about all the incredible skills you were able to make with Alexa.

Who this course is for:

Engineers interested in AI
Hobbyist looking to enter the world of AI
Anyone interested in building Alexa skills

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Course content

Getting familiar with Alexa5 lectures • 42min

Creating interactive skills5 lectures • 27min

Getting accustomed to AWS5 lectures • 28min

Working with ASK - CLI7 lectures • 41min

Exploring the SSML tags5 lectures • 25min

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