Alexa Skills Kit: Practical Chatbot Development

Alexa Skills Kit: Practical Chatbot Development, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.1, with 25 lectures, based on 13 reviews, and has 152 subscribers.

You will learn about Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and how to build chatbots entirely as code Alexa Skills, you'll learn about Intents, Utterances, Custom slots and how everything comes together to build an effective Chatbot DynamoDB Persistance of Attributes, you'll learn how to save session state for your users and have Alexa remember and recall things about people using the Skill JavaScript and NPM development practices, you'll learn how to break down big blocks of code into more manageable structures This course is ideal for individuals who are Hobbyists looking to build Chatbots in the form of Alexa Skills for various home projects or Enterprise Developers looking to unlock more potential from their business data and expose it over a Chatbot or Beginners to the Personal Assistant / Chatbot space, looking to understand what is required to build helpful Bots. It is particularly useful for Hobbyists looking to build Chatbots in the form of Alexa Skills for various home projects or Enterprise Developers looking to unlock more potential from their business data and expose it over a Chatbot or Beginners to the Personal Assistant / Chatbot space, looking to understand what is required to build helpful Bots.

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Summary

Title: Alexa Skills Kit: Practical Chatbot Development

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.1

Number of Lectures: 25

Number of Published Lectures: 25

Number of Curriculum Items: 25

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 25

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and how to build chatbots entirely as code
Alexa Skills, you'll learn about Intents, Utterances, Custom slots and how everything comes together to build an effective Chatbot
DynamoDB Persistance of Attributes, you'll learn how to save session state for your users and have Alexa remember and recall things about people using the Skill
JavaScript and NPM development practices, you'll learn how to break down big blocks of code into more manageable structures

Who Should Attend

Hobbyists looking to build Chatbots in the form of Alexa Skills for various home projects
Enterprise Developers looking to unlock more potential from their business data and expose it over a Chatbot
Beginners to the Personal Assistant / Chatbot space, looking to understand what is required to build helpful Bots.

Target Audiences

Hobbyists looking to build Chatbots in the form of Alexa Skills for various home projects
Enterprise Developers looking to unlock more potential from their business data and expose it over a Chatbot
Beginners to the Personal Assistant / Chatbot space, looking to understand what is required to build helpful Bots.

AWS Alexa, Google Home and other voice assistant devices are becoming more and more common in our interconnected world. The tech landscape rewards developers who are on the leading edge of new trends, and Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is one of the most supported and recognised methods of developing consumer and commercial chatbots.

This course is written with the very latest and best development standards in mind. You’ll learn a number of key things that will help you succeed in this fast moving field of technology.

Alexa Skill Creation (UI) – We’ll develop an understanding of how Alexa Skills can be created and managed via the web interface
Ask Skills Kit (CLI) – Once we have a firm understanding, we’ll write our Skills entirely as code and deploy them using ONE command!
DynamoDB – Data will be stored and retrieved from an instance of DynamoDB that we’ll create and manage from code as well.
DynamoDB Persistence – Using the DynamoDB persistence adaptor in Alexa Skill Kit we’ll save and retrieve user attributes to manage state between the Alexa skill life-cycle

All this plus most importantly you will develop best practices and have a number of perfect example applications by the end of the course that you can use as a reference for future projects.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction & Setup

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Windows, Mac & Linux Setup

Lecture 3: Where To Find Sample Code

Chapter 2: Alexa Skill (Basics) – Random Quote Generator

Lecture 1: Alexa Skill – Interaction Model

Lecture 2: Alexa Skill – Lambda Handler

Lecture 3: Alexa Skill – Lambda Deploy

Lecture 4: Alexa Skill – Lambda Connection

Chapter 3: Alexa Skills Kit (Basics) – Cat-a-Log Project

Lecture 1: Alexa Skills Kit – Create Project

Lecture 2: Cat-a-Log – Project Architecture

Lecture 3: DynamoDB Management Tool – Create

Lecture 4: DynamoDB Management Tool – Insert

Lecture 5: DynamoDB Management Tool – Test

Lecture 6: Improving Project Structure

Lecture 7: Deploy and Test

Lecture 8: Custom Intent Slots

Lecture 9: DynamoDB Lookup

Chapter 4: Alexa Skills Kit (Intermediate) – Cat-a-Log Project

Lecture 1: Response Localisation

Lecture 2: Session Attributes – Name (Model)

Lecture 3: Session Attributes – Name (Code)

Lecture 4: Request & Response Interceptors

Lecture 5: DynamoDB Attribute Persistence

Lecture 6: Dynamic Responses – Timezone Awareness

Lecture 7: Localisation – Cleanup

Lecture 8: SSML Audio Clips

Chapter 5: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Nathan Glover
Full Stack Software Engineer & Technology Enthusiast

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