Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Amazon - Alexa - Tips to start your own Skill Kit

Why Alexa ?

Alexa, the voice service that powers Echo, provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice. (Coolest IoT as well to integrate with lights and thermostat control through Amazon Echo)

Examples of these skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm or timer and more. Alexa is built in the cloud, so it is always getting smarter.

Official Amazon Pages about
Alexa : https://developer.amazon.com/alexa
Alexa Skill Kit : https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit

Alexa Skill Kit (ASK) develop in an hour quick tour to get your hands dirty (JS) - Note : Alexa Skill Interaction Model creation was not updating in IE. Better use firefox / chrome.
6 Steps to build first Alexa Skill : https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/content/fact-skill-1

Steps Detailed to develop : https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/Tx3DVGG0K0TPUGQ/New-Alexa-Skills-Kit-Template:-Step-by-Step-Guide-to-Build-a-Fact-Skill

Alexa Skill kit Samples : https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/using-the-alexa-skills-kit-samples

Alexa Web Browser Testing tool (Works only in webRTC (RTC-RealTimeCommunication Browser)) : https://echosim.io/welcome?next=%2F

Alexa Skill Kit (ASK) forum : https://forums.developer.amazon.com/spaces/23/index.html

ASK Certification Requirements for Custom Skills : https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/alexa-skills-kit-submission-checklist

ASK custom skill using Web-Service - https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/deploying-a-sample-skill-as-a-web-service

Amazon 10 Minutes tutorial (Try tutorials in AWS) - https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/

Social Pages (YouTube) about Alexa to watch and learn :

ASK 101 by Amazon Developer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31K4vse9Jmc

ASK Custom skill easy implementation step in more understandable with intents and slots includes nice examples and github sourceCode reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt9WdE5kR6g&t=1s

Developing Alexa Skill (Explained in 1 to 6 chapter in more detail) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgdPI1B7rg&list=PL2KJmkHeYQTO6ci5KF08mvHYdAZu2jgkJ


Find your icon for your custom app : https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/10930/badge_reddit_icon#size=128

In MSPaint open the image 512 and click -> re-size and re-size the image to size you need.

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