Alexa Essential Training (updated Feb 2019)

Alexa Essential Training (updated Feb 2019), available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.7, with 157 lectures, based on 178 reviews, and has 3218 subscribers.

You will learn about Develop Alexa skills using Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and publish skills to Alexa Skill Store Create Skills using Account linking feature of Alexa Skills Kit, so that you can link Alexa user with use in your system Learn how to access external APIs from your Alexa Skills Learn how to setup your local environment and AWS CLI, so that you can automate the process of uploading Alexa Skills from your local machine Learn how to use FLASK-ASK framework to develop Alexa Skills Develop Alexa Skills using AWS Lambda function or Web Service as an end point Learn how to access external database like AWS DynamoDB from your Alexa Skill to store per user information Learn how to carry out dialogs with users. Master how to create Custom Skills as well as Flash Briefing Skills Learn about Interaction models, dialogs, intents, slots and perform validation on user input Learn Alexas Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Learn how to create multi-lingual & internationalized skills This course is ideal for individuals who are Amazon Alexa Developers or Web developers or Javascript programmers or Android & IOS programmers or programmers It is particularly useful for Amazon Alexa Developers or Web developers or Javascript programmers or Android & IOS programmers or programmers.

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Summary

Title: Alexa Essential Training (updated Feb 2019)

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.7

Number of Lectures: 157

Number of Published Lectures: 147

Number of Curriculum Items: 157

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 147

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Develop Alexa skills using Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and publish skills to Alexa Skill Store

Create Skills using Account linking feature of Alexa Skills Kit, so that you can link Alexa user with use in your system

Learn how to access external APIs from your Alexa Skills

Learn how to setup your local environment and AWS CLI, so that you can automate the process of uploading Alexa Skills from your local machine Learn how to use FLASK-ASK framework to develop Alexa Skills

Develop Alexa Skills using AWS Lambda function or Web Service as an end point

Learn how to access external database like AWS DynamoDB from your Alexa Skill to store per user information

Learn how to carry out dialogs with users.

Master how to create Custom Skills as well as Flash Briefing Skills

Learn about Interaction models, dialogs, intents, slots and perform validation on user input

Learn Alexas Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

Learn how to create multi-lingual & internationalized skills

Who Should Attend

Amazon Alexa Developers

Web developers

Javascript programmers

Android & IOS programmers

programmers

Target Audiences

Amazon Alexa Developers

Web developers

Javascript programmers

Android & IOS programmers

programmers

*** You do not need an Alexa Device to take this course and build skills. Happy Learning 馃檪聽***

Alexa is taking over the world. It started with speakers, then phones, digital displays, refrigerators, bulbs, televisions and even cars. 聽Within just 2 years; more than 25000 skills were added to the聽聽Alexa Store. It is predicted that by 2020 more than 100 million households will own an alexa powered device.锟?/p>

It’s no聽wonder that聽companies are聽investing heavily in incorporating Alexa into their products.聽If they have a IOS or Android app, they now also want to publish an聽Alexa app.

Hence Alexa developers are in high demand. The earlier you jump in and gain seniority, the better your career prospects are.

This course is an in-depth tutorial on Alexa development. We utilize Javascript as our primary development language.锟?/p>

We cover the following topics:

What is Alexa and the current trends in Alexa skill development

Voice User Interface Design

Learn how to carry out multi-turn conversations and dialogs with customer

How to setup a development environment in Alexa

Using AWS Lambda for Alexa skills development

Using express-NodeJs for Alexa skills development

Understanding voice interaction model

Learning how to use the Latest Alexa development tools like the聽“Skill Builder” and “Testing Simulator”

Develop skills using ASK CLI and ASK SDK v2

Develop several complete games & business skills from scratch

and much more

The goal of this course is to make you an expert in the topic of Alexa development.锟?/p>

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Section I – Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Structure

Lecture 2: Should you learn Alexa development ?

Lecture 3: How Alexa works ?

Lecture 4: Alexa devices

Lecture 5: How users interact with Alexa ?

Lecture 6: The Alexa Store

Lecture 7: Sign up

Lecture 8: About the author

Chapter 2: Voice User Interface Design (VUI)

Lecture 1: What is Voice User Interface Design ?

Lecture 2: What do users expect from Voice Interaction ?

Lecture 3: Principle #1: Dont Rely on Screens

Lecture 4: Principle #2: Object Permanence

Lecture 5: Principle #3: Cognitive Load

Lecture 6: Principle #4: Have a Clear Objective

Lecture 7: Principle #5: The X-Factor

Lecture 8: Principle #6: Design for Natural Language Conversation

Lecture 9: Principle #7: Think of Variations

Lecture 10: Applying the Principles: Buying a car VUI Design

Chapter 3: Development Environment Setup – Alexa with AWS Lambda

Lecture 1: Important Links

Lecture 2: Setup Notes

Lecture 3: Development Environment Setup

Lecture 4: Create a New Skill – I

Lecture 5: Create a New Skill – II

Lecture 6: Invocation name

Lecture 7: New Intent

Lecture 8: New AWS Lambda Function

Lecture 9: Coding Business Logic in Lambda Function

Lecture 10: Linking Lambda Function to Skill

Lecture 11: Testing

Lecture 12: Types of Skills

Lecture 13: Break and feedback

Chapter 4: Alexas Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

Lecture 1: Important Notes

Lecture 2: SSML – Introduction

Lecture 3: SSML – examples

Lecture 4: SSML – Reference Link

Lecture 5: Displaying Cards

Chapter 5: Sessions in Alexa Skills

Lecture 1: Handling Intents

Lecture 2: ShouldEndSession – I

Lecture 3: ShouldEndSession – II

Lecture 4: When do sessions end ?

Lecture 5: Attributes in Session object

Lecture 6: Attributes in Session object – continued

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 6: The Built-in Intents – AMAZON.HelpIntent, AMAZON.CancelIntent, AMAZON.StopIntent

Lecture 1: Handling built-in intents

Lecture 2: Recap

Chapter 7: First Skill – Plan My Trip using Web Service as Endpoint

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Source Code

Lecture 3: The Interaction Model

Lecture 4: Setting up the Endpoint

Lecture 5: Handling LaunchRequest

Lecture 6: Intent processing – I

Lecture 7: Intent processing – II

Lecture 8: Intent processing – III

Lecture 9: Intent processing – IV

Lecture 10: Intent processing – V

Lecture 11: Testing

Lecture 12: Using the New Testing Simulator

Lecture 13: Handling StopIntent

Lecture 14: The CancelIntent & HelpIntent

Lecture 15: Skill Invocation name testing

Lecture 16: Testing Utterances

Lecture 17: Slot validation – I

Lecture 18: Slot validation – II

Lecture 19: Prepopulating Slot values

Lecture 20: Congratulations!!

Chapter 8: Second Skill using Alexa SDK v1

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Links

Lecture 3: Setting up the Lambda Function

Lecture 4: Launch Request

Lecture 5: Reprompt Text

Lecture 6: Handling Built-in Intents

Lecture 7: PlanMyTrip Intent

Lecture 8: Source code

Lecture 9: Conclusion

Chapter 9: Third Skill – High Low Game – using Alexa SDK v1

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Important instructions

Lecture 3: Initial Setup

Lecture 4: New Session

Lecture 5: Stop and Cancel Intents

Lecture 6: Introducing States

Lecture 7: State based Routing

Lecture 8: The Guessing State

Lecture 9: Guessing State continued

Lecture 10: Closing notes

Chapter 10: Miscellaneous tasks using SDK v1

Lecture 1: Displaying cards using Alexa sdk v1

Lecture 2: Beta Testing Facility

Chapter 11: Linking to Third-Party Services

Lecture 1: Basics

Lecture 2: Linking to Google Account

Chapter 12: Flash Briefing Skills – Lets how to distribute news

Instructors

Shreya Vakil
Software Engineer

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 6 votes

2 stars: 10 votes

3 stars: 27 votes

4 stars: 64 votes

5 stars: 71 votes

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