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Training: Alexa - A Free Introduction

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Last updated 7 years ago

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.

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

    • 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

    • Google for "Alexa Developer Portal"

    • Go to

  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"

      • Go to but it will be outdated

      • Now go to

    • Log in to the AWS Management Console

      • 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

    • 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"

Alexa - A Free Introduction
New Video Course by A Cloud Guru: Alexa Development for Absolute Beginners
AWS Lambda
AWS Alexa
https://aws.amazon.com/
https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/
SDK and example code for building voice-enabled skills for the Amazon Echo
GitHub - alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-fact
How to integrate AWS Lambda with Alexa
https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/