Alexa, what is 2 + 2?

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1. Alexa, what is 2 + 2? Natasha Carlyon natasha.carlyon@greatersum.com @nscarlyon
2. Natasha Carlyon • Software Crafter • Greater Sum • @nscarlyon • http://speakerdeck.com/ • natasha.carlyon@greatersum.com
3. Intro
4. Who is Alexa?
5. https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit An Alexa Skill Creates a Personalized Voice Experience for Users
6. Smart Home
7. Games
8. Trivia
9. News
10. Business • Alexa for Business https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/
11. Polly • Ivy • Joanna • Kendra • Kimberly • Joey • Justin • Matthew
12. Alexa Devices
13. Alexa Voice Service https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service
14. Alexa Skills Kit https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit • APIs • Tools • Documentation • Code Samples
15. Prerequisites • Amazon Alexa Account • AWS Account • Alexa enabled device*
16. Do I need to know how to code? It depends
17. How much will this cost me? • AWS Free Tier • One million AWS Lambda requests / month • 750 hours of Amazon Cloud compute time / month
18. AWS Promotional Credit • Published Alexa Skill = $100 • If you incur charges -> $100 / month • Essentially Free
19. Design
20. Purpose Why am I building this skill? Math Facts Engaging Retention
21. Audience Who am I building this skill for? Children
22. How? Math Facts? - Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction (0-12) Engaging? - Choose Your Adventure Story Retention? - Repetition; Three/Four at a time; Circling; Gradual
23. Brainstorm
24. Start Simple You’re in a maze. You can go left or right. Left Encounter! Right Encounter! Encounter Fight Encounter Fight
25. Build
26. Wake Word • Alexa • Echo • Amazon • Computer
27. Invocation Name is how users invoke your skill
28. Alexa ask Starbucks to order me a drink Alexa play Would you Rather Alexa open Twenty Questions
29. Invocation Name • Easy to remember • Easy to pronounce • Self explanatory
30. An utterance represents a user’s spoken request
31. I would like a tall java chip. I want to buy a flight from Atlanta to San Francisco. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
32. A slot is a variable in an utterance
33. I would like a [tall java chip]. I want to buy a flight from [Atlanta] to [San Francisco]. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen [swallow]?
34. Intent represents an action that fulfills the user’s request(utterance)
35. Built-In Intents Fallback Intent Cancel Intent Help Intent Stop Intent
36. • AWS • First million calls is free for each month • Cloud/Serverless • Only runs when you need it • Handles security for you • Easy to connect to your skill Lambdas
37. • Internet-accessible • Alexa Skill • Support HTTP over SSL • Accept requests over port 443 • Certificate • Validate incoming requests are coming from Alexa https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/host-a-cust om-skill-as-a-web-service.html Custom Web Service
38. Let’s Build an Alexa Skill! https://developer.amazon.com/alexa?
39. Map
40. Text Adventure
41. Alexa Text Adventure https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-adventure-game
42. Twine • http://twinery.org/ • Online • Desktop Version • Non-Linear Stories
43. DynamoDB • AWS Service • Non-relational Database Service
44. Conclusion
45. Resources • https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-adventure-game • https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit • https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/ • https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service • https://aws.amazon.com/ • https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smapi/quick-start-alexa-skills-kit-comman d-line-interface.html
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