Building Advanced Alexa Skills

Building Advanced Alexa Skills

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 2h 41m | 1.04 GB

You’ve created a basic Alexa skill—but now it’s time to build something for the real world, using some of the cloud-based voice service’s more potent capabilities. In this course, learn how to leverage the developer tooling provided by Amazon to build advanced Alexa skills. Instructor Lee Assam begins by explaining how to work with the Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI). Lee then shows how to build and deploy a skill with the Skill Flow Builder development suite and create an Alexa Presentation Language (APL) skill. Along the way, he demonstrates how to build a choose-your-adventure skill game and a trivia game. These processes are all focused on enhancing the features that you can provide to users when they interact with skills, resulting in a richer user experience.

Topics include:

  • What is the ASK CLI?
  • Creating, deploying, and testing using the ASK CLI
  • Installing the Skill Flow Builder Editor
  • Building narrative skills with the Skill Flow Builder
  • Preparing your skill for deployment
  • Testing in the Alexa Developer console
  • Adding images and sound effects to skills
  • Using the APL authoring tool
  • Building APL skills
Table of Contents

1 Welcome
2 What you should know
3 Creating Amazon accounts
4 Software setup
5 What is the ASK CLI
6 Install the ASK CLI
7 Create, deploy, and test using ASK CLI
8 Making updates and test
9 What is the Skill Flow Builder
10 Installing the Skill Flow Builder Editor
11 Skill Flow Builder developer setup
12 Jungle Escape skill overview
13 Skill Flow Builder Editor tour
14 Creating the beginning of the skill
15 Testing the beginning of the skill
16 Choosing your initial path
17 Testing path selection
18 Doing battle
19 Testing the battle scenes
20 Final escape scene
21 Testing the final escape
22 Previewing with the simulator
23 Preparing your skill for deployment
24 Testing in the Alexa Developer Console
25 Adding images and sound effects
26 Complete media enhancements
27 Testing enhancements
28 What is the APL
29 Using the APL authoring tool
30 Capital Trivia skill setup
31 Skill code overview
32 Initial skill demo
33 Review APL templates
34 Adding APL
35 Complete APL changes
36 Final skill test
37 Closing