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Amazons Alexa is the worlds most popular voice activated digital assistant. More than seven million Alexa-ready devices are in use, and more than ten thousand Alexa voice applications – aka Alexa skills have already been published. In this course, Alexa Champion Terren Peterson explains the underlying architecture of the Alexa platform and then shows you, step-by-step, how to create an Alexa skill and get it published onto the Alexa platform, where it could be used by millions of people.

Discover the Amazon Developer Services portal and harness it to build your first Alexa application
Explore the AWS Lambda platform that hosts the Alexa apps used by the general public
Master each phase of the entire Alexa software development lifecycle
Learn about interaction models, intent schemas, Lambda function testing, and more
Understand the basics of creating a voice user interface (VUI)
Terren Peterson is a 2016 Alexa Champion, this is a designation Amazon awards each year to just a handful of Alexa developers worldwide. He’s created many Alexa skills, including “Hurricane Center�, a skill providing tropical storm information based on NOAA data. An experienced technologist with multiple AWS certifications, Terren is the head of Platform Engineering for the Retail and Direct Bank Business at Capital One, where he leads the bank’s transition to cloud technologies.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Welcome To The Course 01m 37s
About The Author 00m 52s

Chapter 2: Alexa Architecture Overview
Amazon Hardware Review 02m 3s
Alexa Platform Overview 02m 48s
What Is A Skill? 04m 8s
Interaction Model Overview 03m 40s
Request Response Model Overview 05m 0s

Chapter 3: How To Write Your First Alexa App 
Creating An Amazon Developer Account 01m 51s
Choosing A Skill Name 03m 26s
Creating The Intent Schema 00m 54s
Identifying Sample Utterances 03m 5s
Authoring Publishing Information 04m 41s
Creating An Amazon Web Services Account 02m 5s
Authoring Your First Lambda Function 05m 13s

Chapter 4: Testing Your Application
Establishing Test Conditions 00m 54s
Using The Developer Console To Unit Test 03m 52s
How To Unit Test A Lambda Function 02m 17s
Using An Actual Device To Test With Your Voice 01m 1s
How To Check For Errors Within Lambda 01m 29s

Chapter 5: Deploying Your Application
Skill Certification Process 01m 3s
How To Submit Your Skill For Approval 02m 4s
Receiving User Feedback 02m 8s
Tracking Skill Usage 02m 14s

Chapter 6: Conclusion
Wrap Up And Thank You 01m 2s