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Alexa - A Free Introduction

In this course you will learn how to build 3 different skills including an interactive story for Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo. Alexa - A Free Introduction

Two important links

Build Out Three Skills

  • Space Geek
  • Game Helper
  • Interactive Story for Mac

Steps:

  1. Signing up to Amazon Web Services
    • Google for Amazon Web Services
    • Go to https://aws.amazon.com/
    • Select "Create an AWS Account" || "Create a Free Account"
    • Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console
  2. Secure account with Multi Factor Authetication
    • Select under "Security & Identity", "Identity & Access Management (IAM), Manage User Access and Encryption Keys"
    • Select "Activate MFA on your root account"
    • Select "A virtual MFA device"
    • Get "Google Autheticator"
  3. Signing Up To The Alexa Developers Portal
  4. Setting Up Lambda In The Skills Service
    • How we build our Skills
      • Skills Service: AWS Lambda
      • Skills Interface: Invocation Name, Intent Schema, Slot Type, Utterances
    • "Alexa, whats is the weather like?"
      • Skill Interface: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
      • Skill Service: AWS Lambda Processes, The text sent to it and issues a response
    • Google for "Space Geek Alexa"
    • Log in to the AWS Management Console
    • How to integrate AWS Lambda with Alexa
    • Under region drop-down in the upper-right corner, select US East (N. Virginia)
    • Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console
      • Select under "Security & Identity", "Identity & Access Management (IAM), Manage User Access and Encryption Keys"
      • Select "Roles"
      • Select "Create New Roles"
        • Set Role Name: Alexa
        • Select "AWS Lambda"
        • Search and select "Policy Type" "AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole"
        • You will be given:
          • Role Name
          • Role ARN
          • Trusted Entities
          • Policies
        • Select Create Role
    • Select under "Services" "Lambda: Run Code without Thinking about Servers"
      • Select "Create a Lambda Function"
      • Under "Select Blueprint" choose "alexa-skill-kit-sdk-factskill"
      • Under "Configure Triggers" select "Alexa Skills Kit"
      • Under Lambda function handler and role
        • Role: Choose an existing role
        • Existing role: Alexa
      • Select "Create Function"
  5. Setting up Your Alexa Skill in the Developer Portal
    • Go to https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/
    • Select "Alexa Skills Kit"
    • Go to "Getting Started" and select "Add a New Skill"
    • Under "Skill Information"
      • Skill Type: Custom Interaction Model
      • Language: English (U.S.)
      • Name: Intel Geek
      • Invocation Name: Intel Geek
      • Global Fields: Audio Player No
    • Under "Interaction Model" populate "Intent Schema" with
{
  "intents": [
    {
      "intent": "GetNewFactIntent"
    },
    {
      "intent": "AMAZON.HelpIntent"
    },
    {
      "intent": "AMAZON.StopIntent"
    },
    {
      "intent": "AMAZON.CancelIntent"
    }
  ]
}
  • Under "Interaction Model" populate "Sample Utterances" with
GetNewFactIntent a fact
GetNewFactIntent a Intel fact
GetNewFactIntent tell me a fact
GetNewFactIntent tell me a Intel fact
GetNewFactIntent give me a fact
GetNewFactIntent give me a Intel fact
GetNewFactIntent tell me trivia
GetNewFactIntent tell me a Intel trivia
GetNewFactIntent give me trivia
GetNewFactIntent give me a Intel trivia
GetNewFactIntent give me some information
GetNewFactIntent give me some Intel information
GetNewFactIntent tell me something
GetNewFactIntent give me something
  • Under "Configuration"
    • Service Endpoint Type: AWS Lambda ARN (Amazon Resource Name)
    • Pick a Geographical region that is closest to your customer target: North America
    • North America: arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:007315488252:function:IntelGeek
    • Account Linking: Do you allow users to create an account or link to an existing account with you? No
  • Under Test
    • Write under "Service Simulator" utterance "Give me an Intel fact" and select "Ask Intel Geek"