Hands-on Building Alexa Skills
Hands-on Building Alexa Skills, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.94, with 35 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 9 reviews, and has 45 subscribers.
You will learn about The fundamentals that empower users and customers to converse effectively with their devices Add metadata that your skill will use in the Alexa app to reach its desired audience Create opening invocations that make sense and engage your audiences Learn proper conversation flow, prompts, and stop messages Prioritize your conversation paths for top-notch user experience and customer journey Write proper synonyms to keep the user engaged and conversation going How to properly test your skills and keep users engaged Learn the Alexa Skill Testing, Submission and Approval/Publishing Process This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is suitable for developers who want to learn how to master Alexa Skills and use Alexa to build amazing voice UI applications, with real-world commercial benefit. It is particularly useful for This course is suitable for developers who want to learn how to master Alexa Skills and use Alexa to build amazing voice UI applications, with real-world commercial benefit.
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Summary
Title: Hands-on Building Alexa Skills
Price: $19.99
Average Rating: 3.94
Number of Lectures: 35
Number of Quizzes: 7
Number of Published Lectures: 35
Number of Published Quizzes: 7
Number of Curriculum Items: 42
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 42
Original Price: $109.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
- The fundamentals that empower users and customers to converse effectively with their devices
- Add metadata that your skill will use in the Alexa app to reach its desired audience
- Create opening invocations that make sense and engage your audiences
- Learn proper conversation flow, prompts, and stop messages
- Prioritize your conversation paths for top-notch user experience and customer journey
- Write proper synonyms to keep the user engaged and conversation going
- How to properly test your skills and keep users engaged
- Learn the Alexa Skill Testing, Submission and Approval/Publishing Process
Who Should Attend
- This course is suitable for developers who want to learn how to master Alexa Skills and use Alexa to build amazing voice UI applications, with real-world commercial benefit.
Target Audiences
- This course is suitable for developers who want to learn how to master Alexa Skills and use Alexa to build amazing voice UI applications, with real-world commercial benefit.
Alexa is the most popular and widely used virtual assistant. Using simple voice commands, you can ask Alexa to find and read the news, play music, order a pizza, or control other smart home devices. The most valuable use of these voice-based apps on top of Alexa, called Alexa Skills, is for business use. There is a risk that many businesses are not taking advantage of Alexa Skills benefits, and are also wondering how and why they can—and should—use Alexa Skills to help drive their business growth. This course introduces the core concepts of voice design and how to program your backend using the Alexa Skills Kit.
You will learn Voice User Interface Design principles, and how to build custom voice commands for Alexa devices using the Alexa Skills Kit, Voiceflow, and Node.js. You will explore the Alexa ecosystem and the components that make up custom Alexa skills; learn how to configure the Amazon Developer Portal, and create, code, and deploy it using Voiceflow, Node.js, Lambda functions, and Amazon Web Services. You will discover how to test your skills in the browser and on an actual Alexa device and share them with other Alexa users. You will learn to develop, test, validate, and troubleshooting skills, manage the publishing process, and work with the Alexa developer console.
By the end of this course, you will be able to create voice UIs, configure Alexa skill functionality, and test/expand your skills.
This course is suitable for developers who want to learn how to master Alexa Skills and use Alexa to build amazing voice UI applications, with real-world commercial benefit. Basic JavaScript and Node.js experience would be beneficial but not necessary.
About the Author
Paul Hickey (CEO, Data Driven Design) has created and grown businesses via digital strategy and internet marketing for more than 10 years. His sweet spot is using analytics to design and build websites and grow the audience and revenue of businesses via SEO/Blogging, Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook and Instagram ads, social media content marketing and email marketing. The part that he’s most passionate about is quantifying next marketing actions based on real data.
Most recently, Paul has pioneered building voice-based applications like Alexa Skills and Google Actions to help businesses become more efficient and effective. He recently founded the Nashville Voice Conference, which focuses on introducing opportunities for all businesses to increase efficiency, effectiveness and relevancy via integrating voice-based applications like Alexa Skills and Google Actions into their digital presence. He started Data Driven Design, LLC in 2016 with the sole intent to bring his customers’ results driven by data and not theories or just opinions. He works to ensure that every customer gets their business and marketing goals met or exceeded by using the most effective marketing tools. He spends his spare time studying technology and consumer behavior trends and is a master at delivering customer service and results.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Why All Businesses Need Alexa Skills
Lecture 1: The Course Overview
Lecture 2: How Alexa Skills will Improve Your Audience’s Experience
Lecture 3: Alexa Skills Are the New Websites
Lecture 4: How Alexa Skills Reduce Friction and Save Time
Lecture 5: Alexa Skills with Account Linking (For Retention)
Lecture 6: Alexa Skills as Integrated Extensions of Other Pre-Existing Applications
Chapter 2: Setting Up an Amazon Developer Account
Lecture 1: Setting Up an Amazon Alexa Developer Account
Lecture 2: Overview of the Types of Skills You Can Build
Lecture 3: Building Basic Conversations
Lecture 4: Building Games
Lecture 5: What Is In-Skill Purchasing?
Lecture 6: What Are Alexa-Hosted Skills?
Chapter 3: Setting Up a Voiceflow Account
Lecture 1: Overview of Voiceflow and Why We Use It
Lecture 2: Creating a Voiceflow Account
Lecture 3: Overview of Voiceflow Blocks
Lecture 4: Other Benefits of Using Voiceflow
Lecture 5: Collaborating with Co-Workers
Chapter 4: Writing Your Skill’s Title, Description, and Icon Creation
Lecture 1: Writing Your Skill’s Title and Description
Lecture 2: Creating an Icon for Your Skill
Lecture 3: How to Categorize Your Skill
Lecture 4: How to Pick Relevant Keywords for Your Skill
Chapter 5: Starting to Write Your Skill – Learn the Basic Blocks
Lecture 1: Writing Your Skill – Basic Blocks (Speak and Choice Blocks)
Lecture 2: Learn about Speak Blocks to Make Your Skill’s Voice Come to Life
Lecture 3: What Choice Blocks Are and How to Use Them
Lecture 4: How to Keep the Conversation Going
Chapter 6: Adding Advanced Functionality to Your Skill – Logic and Advanced Blocks
Lecture 1: Basic Conversational Skill Recap
Lecture 2: Learn “Capture” and “Set” Blocks
Lecture 3: Learn “If”: Set Conditions That Modify Paths Only When True
Lecture 4: Learn “Random”: Choose Randomly from a Set Number of Paths
Lecture 5: Overview of Interactions, Intents, Streams, Integrations, Flow, Code, and Exit
Chapter 7: Testing and Deployment
Lecture 1: How to Test Your Skill Using Voiceflow
Lecture 2: How to Deploy Your Skill to Alexa Developer Console
Lecture 3: How to Test Your Skill in the Alexa Developer Console
Lecture 4: How to Submit Your Skill as Public or Private (Alexa for Business)
Lecture 5: Approval Process/Finding Your Skill in the Store
Instructors
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Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion
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